• 생명과학회지
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• 제30권8호
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• pp.713-721
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• 2020

Adipogenesis의 연구는 인간의 지방생물학의 기초적인 분자기전을 이해하고, 비만, 당뇨 및 대사성 증후군의 발병기전을 밝히는데 필요하다. Adipogenesis의 많은 연구가 adipocytes 특이적인 핵심 전사인자인 PPARγ와 C/EBPα를 중심으로 하는 유전자 발현조절 및 세포 내 신호전달에 초점이 맞추어 활발하게 연구가 진행되었다. 그러나, 에피지놈 변형효소나 히스톤 돌연변이에 의한 에피지놈 관점에서 adipogenesis 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 포유동물에서 히스톤 methylation은 유전자 발현에 대한 주요 후성유전적(epigenome) 변형 중 하나이며, 특히 히스톤 H3 lysine methylation은 다양한 조직 및 기관 발생과정과 세포 분화에 매우 중요한 히스톤 변형이다. 세포 특이적 enhancer는 adipogenesis에서 active enhancer 표지자인 H3K27ac와 함께 H3K4me1로 변형된다. MLL4는 Pparg 및 Cebpa 유전자 ehancers에서 중요한 adipogenic H3K4 mono-methyltransferase이다. 따라서 MLL4는 adipogenesis에 중요한 에피지놈 변형효소라고 할 수 있다. 유전자 발현 억제를 유발하는 대표적인 히스톤 변형인 H3K27me3은 Polycomb repressive complex 2의 효소활성 subunit인 Ezh2에 의해 매개된다. Wnt 유전자에서 Ezh2에 의한 H3K27me3 히스톤 methylation 변형은 adipogenesis를 증가시키는데, 이는 WNT 신호 전달이 adipogenesis의 억제 조절자로 알려져 있기 때문이다. 본 논문은 유전자 발현을 근본적으로 조절하는 히스톤 H3 methylation에 의한 후성 유전학적인 조절이 어떻게 adipogenesis를 조절하는지에 대해 요약한다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.616-620
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• 2011

진핵세포의 크로마틴에서 히스톤 단백질 H3와 H4의 라이신 잔기는 공유결합에 의해 변형된다. 히스톤 H3에서 27번 라이신은 아세틸화되거나(H3K27ac) 세 가지 단계로 메틸화가 될 수 있으며(H3K27me1, H3K27me2, H3K27me3), 이러한 H3K27의 변형들은 각각 독특한 형태로 유전자 전사 및 크로마틴 구조와 관련된다. 일반적으로 H3K27ac과 H3K27me1은 좌위조절부위나 활발히 전사되는 유전자처럼 활성 크로마틴에서 나타나고, 이에 반해 전사가 일어나지 않은 유전자는 높은 수준의 H3K27me2과 H3K27me3이 관찰된다. 이러한 변형들은 각각 다른 종류의 변형효소에 의해 촉매된다. 최근 연구들은 유전자 전사 및 크로마틴 구조 형성에서 H3K27의 네 가지 변형들 사이에 상관 관계가 있음을 제시하고 있다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권9호
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• pp.1578-1582
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• 2015

Granzyme A (GzmA) was identified as a cytotoxic T lymphocyte protease protein expressed in the nucleus. A number of nuclear proteins are well known as GzmA substrates, and GzmA is related with caspase-independent apoptosis. Histones H1, H2B, and H3 were identified as GzmA substrates through in vitro experiment with purified nucleosome. Here, we demonstrated that histone H3 was cleaved by GzmA in vivo during staurosporine-induced cell death. Moreover, histone H3 cleavage was blocked by the GzmA inhibitor nafamostat mesylate and by GzmA knockdown using siRNA. Taken together, we verified that histone H3 is a real substrate for GzmA in vivo in the Raji cells treated by staurosporin.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.128-133
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• 1990

고등한 진핵생물에서 nucleosome 구성에 중요한 역할을 하는 histone 단백질이 하등한 진핵생물에서도 존재하는지의 여부를 알아보기 위하여 실험을 하였다. 하등한 균류에 속하는 Rhizopus 속의 5종(R. acidus, R. arrhizus, R. formosaensis. R R. japoηicus, R. oryzae)을 재료로 하여 15% polyacrylamide acid-urea gel과 18% P이yacηlam ide SDS-gel을 이용하여 전기영동하였다. 분자량을 비교하기 위하여 marker protein으로 Cytochrome C와 함께 15% polyacrylamide SDS-gel을 이용하였으며 모든 gel에서 standard로써 calf thymus histone을 사용하여 electrophoreticmobility를 비교하였고 호 한 속내에서의 종간의 차이가 있는지를 설험하였다 실험결과는 한 속내에서 종에 따른 차이로 볼 수 없었으며 standard인 calf thymus histone HI. H2A, H2B, H3, H4와 유사한 electromobility흘 갖는 protein band를 확인할 수 있었으며 HI histone은 t성확하게 일치되지가않았다.따라서 하등한균류인Rhizopµs에서도고등 진핵생불과유사한단백질이 존재함을 주정할 수가 있었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.156-160
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• 1993

A chicken H2B histone gene was cloned and expressed in Rat 3 cell line. Its messenger RNA level was about 10 times higher during S phase than during $G_1$ phase. A chimeric chicken-yeast-chicken H2B histone gene was made to change some of wobble sequences of chicken H2B gene. When the chimeric H2B gene was transfected into the Rat 3 cell line, it showed a pattern of expression similar to that of the original chicken H2B gene. At least in this gene, it was concluded that the wobble sequences were not required for the cell-cycle regulated pattern of expression.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.196-204
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• 2019

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common metabolic disease triggered by epigenetic alterations, including lysine acetylation at histone or non-histone proteins, affecting the stability or transcription of lipogenic genes. Although various natural dietary compounds have anti-lipogenic effects, their effects on the acetylation status and lipid metabolism in the liver have not been thoroughly investigated. MATERIALS/METHODS: Following oleic-palmitic acid (OPA)-induced lipid accumulation in HepG2 cells, the acetylation status of histone and non-histone proteins, HAT activity, and mRNA expression of representative lipogenic genes, including $PPAR{\gamma}$, SREBP-1c, ACLY, and FASN, were evaluated. Furthermore, correlations between lipid accumulation and HAT activity for 22 representative natural food extracts (NExs) were evaluated. RESULTS: Non-histone protein acetylation increased following OPA treatment and the acetylation of histones H3K9, H4K8, and H4K16 was accelerated, accompanied by an increase in HAT activity. OPA-induced increases in the mRNA expression of lipogenic genes were down-regulated by C-646, a p300/CBP-specific inhibitor. Finally, we detected a positive correlation between HAT activity and lipid accumulation (Pearson's correlation coefficient = 0.604) using 22 NExs. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that NExs have novel applications as nutraceutical agents with HAT inhibitor activity for the prevention and treatment of NAFLD.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2022

Recent studies revealed that histone proteins are involved in innate immune responses during pathogen invasion as well as DNA packing. This study characterized the histone genes (H2A.V) of sevenband groupers and analyzed gene expression in NNV-infected sevenband groupers. The open reading frame (ORF) of H2A.V is 387 bp which encoded 128 amino acid residues. The deduced amino acid sequence of H2A.V harbor a highly conserved domain for H2A/H2B/H3 and H2A_C binding domain. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis showed that H2A.V had a high gene expression level in the brain and blood after being NNV-infected. An increase in extracellular histone protein in the blood has been identified as a biomarker for vascular function in humans. More research is required to understand histone's immune response at the protein level or in aquatic animals.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.423-428
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• 2005

Immediately after fertilization, a chromatin remodeling process in the oocyte cytoplasm extracts protamine molecules from the sperm-derived DNA and loads histones onto it. We examined how the histone H3-lysine 9 methylation system is established on the remodeled sperm chromatin in mice. We found that the paternal pronucleus was not stained for dimethylated H3-K9 (H3-$m_2K9$) during pronucleus development, while the maternal genome stained intensively. Such H3-$m_2K9$ asymmetry between the parental pronuclei was independent of $HP1{\beta}$ localization and, much like DNA methylation, was preserved to the two-cell stage when the nucleus appeared to be compartmentalized for H3-$m_2K9$. A conspicuous increase in H3-$m_2K9$ level was observed at the four-cell stage, and then the level was maintained without a visible change up to the blastocyst stage. The behavior of H3-$m_2K9$ was very similar, but not identical, to that of 5-methylcytosine during preimplantation development, suggesting that there is some connection between methylation of histone and of DNA in early mouse development.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.42.1-42.9
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• 2020

Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with high-throughput DNA sequencing (ChIP-Seq) is a powerful technology to profile the location of proteins of interest on a whole-genome scale. To identify the enrichment location of proteins, many programs and algorithms have been proposed. However, none of the commonly used peak calling programs could accurately explain the binding features of target proteins detected by ChIP-Seq. Here, publicly available data on 12 histone modifications, including H3K4ac/me1/me2/me3, H3K9ac/me3, H3K27ac/me3, H3K36me3, H3K56ac, and H3K79me1/me2, generated from a human embryonic stem cell line (H1), were profiled with five peak callers (CisGenome, MACS1, MACS2, PeakSeq, and SISSRs). The performance of the peak calling programs was compared in terms of reproducibility between replicates, examination of enriched regions to variable sequencing depths, the specificity-to-noise signal, and sensitivity of peak prediction. There were no major differences among peak callers when analyzing point source histone modifications. The peak calling results from histone modifications with low fidelity, such as H3K4ac, H3K56ac, and H3K79me1/me2, showed low performance in all parameters, which indicates that their peak positions might not be located accurately. Our comparative results could provide a helpful guide to choose a suitable peak calling program for specific histone modifications.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2006

SET (Suppressor of variegation, Enhancer of zeste, and the Trithorax) domain-containing proteins are known to have methyltransferase activity at lysine residues of histone proteins. In this study, we identified a novel SET domain-containing protein from mouse and named Kodo7. Indeed, Kodo7 has methyltransferase activity at K9 residue of the H3 protein as demonstrated by a histone methyl-transferse activity assay using GST-tagged Kodo7. Confocal microscopy showed that Kodo7 is co-localized with histones in the nucleus. Interestingly, ectopic expression of Kodo7 by transient transfection induced cell death and treatment of the transfectants with a caspase-3 inhibitor, Ac-DEVD-AFC decreased Kodo7-induced apoptosis. These results suggest that Kodo7 induces apoptotic cell death through increased methylation of histones leading to transcriptional repression.