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  • Metabolically controlled histone H4K5 acylation/acetylation ratio drives BRD4 genomic distribution.

Metabolically controlled histone H4K5 acylation/acetylation ratio drives BRD4 genomic distribution.

Cell reports (2021-07-29)
Mengqing Gao, Jin Wang, Sophie Rousseaux, Minjia Tan, Lulu Pan, Lijun Peng, Sisi Wang, Wenqian Xu, Jiayi Ren, Yuanfang Liu, Martin Spinck, Sophie Barral, Tao Wang, Florent Chuffart, Ekaterina Bourova-Flin, Denis Puthier, Sandrine Curtet, Lisa Bargier, Zhongyi Cheng, Heinz Neumann, Jian Li, Yingming Zhao, Jian-Qing Mi, Saadi Khochbin
ABSTRACT

In addition to acetylation, histones are modified by a series of competing longer-chain acylations. Most of these acylation marks are enriched and co-exist with acetylation on active gene regulatory elements. Their seemingly redundant functions hinder our understanding of histone acylations' specific roles. Here, by using an acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cell model and blasts from individuals with B-precusor ALL (B-ALL), we demonstrate a role of mitochondrial activity in controlling the histone acylation/acetylation ratio, especially at histone H4 lysine 5 (H4K5). An increase in the ratio of non-acetyl acylations (crotonylation or butyrylation) over acetylation on H4K5 weakens bromodomain containing protein 4 (BRD4) bromodomain-dependent chromatin interaction and enhances BRD4 nuclear mobility and availability for binding transcription start site regions of active genes. Our data suggest that the metabolism-driven control of the histone acetylation/longer-chain acylation(s) ratio could be a common mechanism regulating the bromodomain factors' functional genomic distribution.

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