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Gonzalo G De Polavieja - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Histone H4 acetylation regulates behavioral inter individual variability in zebrafish
    Genome Biology, 2018
    Co-Authors: Angel Carlos Roman, Julian Vicentepage, Alfonso Perezescudero, Jose Maria Carvajalgonzalez, Pedro M Fernandezsalguero, Gonzalo G De Polavieja
    Abstract:

    Animals can show very different behaviors even in isogenic populations, but the underlying mechanisms to generate this variability remain elusive. We use the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model to test the influence of Histone modifications on behavior. We find that laboratory and isogenic zebrafish larvae show consistent individual behaviors when swimming freely in identical wells or in reaction to stimuli. This behavioral inter-individual variability is reduced when we impair the Histone deacetylation pathway. Individuals with high levels of Histone H4 acetylation, and specifically H4K12, behave similarly to the average of the population, but those with low levels deviate from it. More precisely, we find a set of genomic regions whose Histone H4 acetylation is reduced with the distance between the individual and the average population behavior. We find evidence that this modulation depends on a complex of Yin-yang 1 (YY1) and Histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) that binds to and deacetylates these regions. These changes are not only maintained at the transcriptional level but also amplified, as most target regions are located near genes encoding transcription factors. We suggest that stochasticity in the Histone deacetylation pathway participates in the generation of genetic-independent behavioral inter-individual variability.

  • Histone H4 acetylation regulates behavioral inter individual variability in zebrafish
    bioRxiv, 2017
    Co-Authors: Angel Carlos Roman, Julian Vicentepage, Alfonso Perezescudero, Jose Maria Carvajalgonzalez, Pedro M Fernandezsalguero, Gonzalo G De Polavieja
    Abstract:

    Animals can show very different behaviors even in isogenic populations, but the underlying mechanisms to generate this variability remain elusive. We found that laboratory and isogenic zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae showed consistent individual behaviors when swimming freely in identical wells or in reaction to stimuli. We also found that this behavioral inter-individual variability was reduced when we impaired the Histone deacetylation pathway. Individuals with high levels of Histone H4 acetylation, and specifically H4K12, behaved similar to the average of the population, but those with low levels deviated from it. More precisely, we found a set of genomic regions whose Histone H4 acetylation is reduced with the distance between the individual and the average population behavior. We found evidence that this modulation depends on a complex of Yin-yang 1 (YY1) and Histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) that binds to and deacetylates these regions. These changes were not only maintained at the transcriptional level but also amplified, as most target regions were located near genes encoding transcription factors. We suggest that stochasticity in the Histone deacetylation pathway participates the generation of genetic-independent behavioral inter-individual variability.

Noriyuki Suka - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Alfonso Perezescudero - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Histone H4 acetylation regulates behavioral inter individual variability in zebrafish
    Genome Biology, 2018
    Co-Authors: Angel Carlos Roman, Julian Vicentepage, Alfonso Perezescudero, Jose Maria Carvajalgonzalez, Pedro M Fernandezsalguero, Gonzalo G De Polavieja
    Abstract:

    Animals can show very different behaviors even in isogenic populations, but the underlying mechanisms to generate this variability remain elusive. We use the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model to test the influence of Histone modifications on behavior. We find that laboratory and isogenic zebrafish larvae show consistent individual behaviors when swimming freely in identical wells or in reaction to stimuli. This behavioral inter-individual variability is reduced when we impair the Histone deacetylation pathway. Individuals with high levels of Histone H4 acetylation, and specifically H4K12, behave similarly to the average of the population, but those with low levels deviate from it. More precisely, we find a set of genomic regions whose Histone H4 acetylation is reduced with the distance between the individual and the average population behavior. We find evidence that this modulation depends on a complex of Yin-yang 1 (YY1) and Histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) that binds to and deacetylates these regions. These changes are not only maintained at the transcriptional level but also amplified, as most target regions are located near genes encoding transcription factors. We suggest that stochasticity in the Histone deacetylation pathway participates in the generation of genetic-independent behavioral inter-individual variability.

  • Histone H4 acetylation regulates behavioral inter individual variability in zebrafish
    bioRxiv, 2017
    Co-Authors: Angel Carlos Roman, Julian Vicentepage, Alfonso Perezescudero, Jose Maria Carvajalgonzalez, Pedro M Fernandezsalguero, Gonzalo G De Polavieja
    Abstract:

    Animals can show very different behaviors even in isogenic populations, but the underlying mechanisms to generate this variability remain elusive. We found that laboratory and isogenic zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae showed consistent individual behaviors when swimming freely in identical wells or in reaction to stimuli. We also found that this behavioral inter-individual variability was reduced when we impaired the Histone deacetylation pathway. Individuals with high levels of Histone H4 acetylation, and specifically H4K12, behaved similar to the average of the population, but those with low levels deviated from it. More precisely, we found a set of genomic regions whose Histone H4 acetylation is reduced with the distance between the individual and the average population behavior. We found evidence that this modulation depends on a complex of Yin-yang 1 (YY1) and Histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) that binds to and deacetylates these regions. These changes were not only maintained at the transcriptional level but also amplified, as most target regions were located near genes encoding transcription factors. We suggest that stochasticity in the Histone deacetylation pathway participates the generation of genetic-independent behavioral inter-individual variability.

Shelley L Berger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation regulates cellular lifespan
    Nature, 2009
    Co-Authors: Weiwei Dang, Jean Dorsey, Shelley L Berger, Kristan K Steffen, Rocco Perry, Brad F Johnson, Ali Shilatifard, Matt Kaeberlein, Brian K Kennedy
    Abstract:

    Cells undergoing developmental processes are characterized by persistent non-genetic alterations in chromatin, termed epigenetic changes, represented by distinct patterns of DNA methylation and Histone post-translational modifications. Sirtuins, a group of conserved NAD(+)-dependent deacetylases or ADP-ribosyltransferases, promote longevity in diverse organisms; however, their molecular mechanisms in ageing regulation remain poorly understood. Yeast Sir2, the first member of the family to be found, establishes and maintains chromatin silencing by removing Histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation and bringing in other silencing proteins. Here we report an age-associated decrease in Sir2 protein abundance accompanied by an increase in H4 lysine 16 acetylation and loss of Histones at specific subtelomeric regions in replicatively old yeast cells, which results in compromised transcriptional silencing at these loci. Antagonizing activities of Sir2 and Sas2, a Histone acetyltransferase, regulate the replicative lifespan through Histone H4 lysine 16 at subtelomeric regions. This pathway, distinct from existing ageing models for yeast, may represent an evolutionarily conserved function of sirtuins in regulation of replicative ageing by maintenance of intact telomeric chromatin.

  • phosphorylation of Histone H4 serine 1 during dna damage requires casein kinase ii in s cerevisiae
    Current Biology, 2005
    Co-Authors: Wang L Cheung, Thanuja Krishnamoorthy, Jean Dorsey, Shelley L Berger, Fiona B Turner, Branden Wolner, Melissa Anne Foley, Craig L Peterson, David C Allis
    Abstract:

    Summary Distinct patterns of posttranslational Histone modifications can regulate DNA-templated events such as mitosis, transcription, replication, apoptosis, and DNA damage [1–5], suggesting the presence of a "Histone code" in these nuclear processes [6, 7]. Phosphorylation of Histone H2A S129 at sites of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) has been implicated in damage repair in yeast [8, 9]. Here, we describe another phosphorylation event on serine 1 (S1) of Histone H4; this event is also associated with MMS- or phleomycin-induced DSBs but not with UV-induced DNA damage. Chromatin-immunoprecipitation (ChIP) studies of an HO-endonuclease-inducible strain show that S1 phosphorylation is specifically enhanced 20- to 25-fold in nucleosomes proximal to the DSB. In addition, we show that casein kinase II (CK2) can phosphorylate H4 S1 in vitro and that null or temperature-sensitive CK2 yeast mutants are defective for induction of H4 S1 phosphorylation upon DNA damage in vivo. Furthermore, H4 S1 phosphorylation and CK2 play a role in DSB re-joining as indicated by a nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) plasmid assay. CK2 has been implicated in regulating a DNA-damage response; our data suggest that Histone H4 S1 is one of its physiological substrates. These data suggest that this modification is a part of the DNA-repair Histone code.