H3K36 methylation maintains cell identity by regulating opposing lineage programmes
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Hoetker, Michael
Yagi, Masaki
Di Stefano, Bruno
Langerman, Justin
Cristea, Simona
Wong, Lai Ping
Huebner, Aaron J
Charlton, Jocelyn
Deng, Weixian
Haggerty, Chuck
Sadreyev, Ruslan I
Meissner, Alexander
Michor, Franziska
Plath, Kathrin
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Hoetker, Michael, Masaki Yagi, Bruno Di Stefano, Justin Langerman, Simona Cristea, Lai Ping Wong, Aaron J Huebner et al. "H3K36 methylation maintains cell identity by regulating opposing lineage programmes." Nat Cell Biol 25, no. 8 (2023): 1121-1134. DOI: 10.1038/s41556-023-01191-zAbstract
The epigenetic mechanisms that maintain differentiated cell states remain largely unexplored. Here, we employed histone mutants to uncover a crucial role for H3K36-methylation in the maintenance of cell identities across diverse developmental contexts. Focusing on the experimental induction of pluripotency, we show that H3K36M-mediated depletion of H3K36-methylation endows fibroblasts with a plastic state poised to acquire pluripotency in nearly all cells. At a cellular level, H3K36M facilitates epithelial plasticity by rendering fibroblasts insensitive to TGF signals. At a molecular level, H3K36M enables the decommissioning of mesenchymal enhancers and the parallel activation of epithelial/stem cell enhancers. This enhancer rewiring is Tet-dependent and redirects Sox2 from promiscuous somatic to pluripotency targets. Our findings reveal a previously unappreciated dual role for H3K36-methylation in the maintenance of cell identity by integrating a crucial developmental pathway into sustained expression of cell type-specific programs, and by opposing the expression of alternative lineage programs through enhancer methylation.Citable link to this page
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