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  3. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine plays a critical role in glioblastomagenesis by recruiting the CHTOP-methylosome complex

5-Hydroxymethylcytosine plays a critical role in glioblastomagenesis by recruiting the CHTOP-methylosome complex

  • Cell Rep. 2014 Oct 9;9(1):48-60. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.08.071.
Hiroki Takai 1,  Koji Masuda 2,  Tomohiro Sato 1,  Yuriko Sakaguchi 3,  Takeo Suzuki 3,  Tsutomu Suzuki 3,  Ryo Koyama-Nasu 1,  Yukiko Nasu-Nishimura 1,  Yuki Katou 2,  Haruo Ogawa 4,  Yasuyuki Morishita 5,  Hiroko Kozuka-Hata 6,  Masaaki Oyama 6,  Tomoki Todo 7,  Yasushi Ino 7,  Akitake Mukasa 7,  Nobuhito Saito 7,  Chikashi Toyoshima 4,  Katsuhiko Shirahige 2,  Tetsu Akiyama 8
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Laboratory of Molecular and Genetic Information, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
  • 2 Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
  • 3 Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
  • 4 Laboratory of Membrane Proteins, Center for Structural Biology of Challenging Proteins, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
  • 5 Department of Molecular Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
  • 6 Medical Proteomics Laboratory, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
  • 7 Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
  • 8 Laboratory of Molecular and Genetic Information, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].
PMID: 25284789 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.08.071
Abstract

The development of Cancer is driven not only by genetic mutations but also by epigenetic alterations. Here, we show that TET1-mediated production of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is required for the tumorigenicity of glioblastoma cells. Furthermore, we demonstrate that chromatin target of PRMT1 (CHTOP) binds to 5hmC. We found that CHTOP is associated with an arginine methyltransferase complex, termed the methylosome, and that this promotes the PRMT1-mediated methylation of arginine 3 of histone H4 (H4R3) in genes involved in glioblastomagenesis, including EGFR, Akt3, CDK6, CCND2, and BRaf. Moreover, we found that CHTOP and PRMT1 are essential for the expression of these genes and that CHTOP is required for the tumorigenicity of glioblastoma cells. These results suggest that 5hmC plays a critical role in glioblastomagenesis by recruiting the CHTOP-methylosome complex to selective sites on the chromosome, where it methylates H4R3 and activates the transcription of cancer-related genes.

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