An Embryonic Stem Cell-Specific NuRD Complex Functions through Interaction with WDR5.
An Embryonic Stem Cell-Specific NuRD Complex Functions through Interaction with WDR5.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.04.020
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发表时间:
2017-06-06
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
Fazzio TG
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作者:
Ee LS;McCannell KN;Tang Y;Fernandes N;Hardy WR;Green MR;Chu F;Fazzio TG
The Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex is a chromatin regulatory complex that functions as a transcriptional co-repressor in metazoans. The NuRD subunit MBD3 is essential for targeting and assembly of a functional NuRD complex as well as embryonic stem cell (ESC) pluripotency. Three MBD3 isoforms (MBD3A, MBD3B, and MBD3C) are expressed in mouse. Here, we find that the MBD3C isoform contains a unique 50-amino-acid N-terminal region that is necessary for MBD3C to specifically interact with the histone H3 binding protein WDR5. Domain analyses of WDR5 reveal that the H3 binding pocket is required for interaction with MBD3C. We find that while Mbd3c knockout ESCs differentiate normally, MBD3C is redundant with the MBD3A and MBD3B isoforms in regulation of gene expression, with the unique MBD3C N terminus required for this redundancy. Together, our data characterize a unique NuRD complex variant that functions specifically in ESCs. Mbd3c binds Wdr5 through its unique N-terminal domain Wdr5 interaction is critical for Mbd3c function Mbd3c/NuRD can substitute for canonical NuRD complex in ESC gene regulation Ee and colleagues characterize an embryonic stem cell (ESC)-specific isoform of the Mbd3 subunit of the NuRD chromatin remodeling complex. This variant, called Mbd3c, forms a variant NuRD complex that incorporates the histone binding protein Wdr5, and this interaction is critical for its functions in gene regulation. The presence of either Mbd3c/NuRD or canonical NuRD complex (containing either the Mbd3a or Mbd3b isoform) is necessary for normal gene regulation and ESC pluripotency.