Title :

Histone deacetylase inhibition modulates histone acetylation at gene promoter regions and affects genome-wide gene transcription in Schistosoma mansoni

Author(s) :

Anderson, Leticia [Auteur]
Instituto Butantan [São Paulo]
Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo [USP]
Gomes, Monete [Auteur]
Instituto Butantan [São Paulo]
Dasilva, Lucas [Auteur]
Instituto Butantan [São Paulo]
Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo [USP]
da Silva Andrade Pereira, Adriana [Auteur]
Instituto Butantan [São Paulo]
Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo [USP]
Mourão, Marina [Auteur]
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz [FIOCRUZ]
Romier, Christophe [Auteur]
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire [IGBMC]
Pierce, Raymond [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Verjovski-Almeida, Sergio [Auteur]
Instituto Butantan [São Paulo]
Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo [USP]

Journal title :

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Publisher :

Public Library of Science

Publication date :

2017

ISSN :

1935-2727

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Génétique

English abstract : [en]

BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease infecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Treatment depends on a single drug, praziquantel, which kills the Schistosoma spp. parasite only at the adult stage. ...
Show more >BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease infecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Treatment depends on a single drug, praziquantel, which kills the Schistosoma spp. parasite only at the adult stage. HDAC inhibitors (HDACi) such as Trichostatin A (TSA) induce parasite mortality in vitro (schistosomula and adult worms), however the downstream effects of histone hyperacetylation on the parasite are not known. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: TSA treatment of adult worms in vitro increased histone acetylation at H3K9ac and H3K14ac, which are transcription activation marks, not affecting the unrelated transcription repression mark H3K27me3. We investigated the effect of TSA HDACi on schistosomula gene expression at three different time points, finding a marked genome-wide change in the transcriptome profile. Gene transcription activity was correlated with changes on the chromatin acetylation mark at gene promoter regions. Moreover, combining expression data with ChIP-Seq public data for schistosomula, we found that differentially expressed genes having the H3K4me3 mark at their promoter region in general showed transcription activation upon HDACi treatment, compared with those without the mark, which showed transcription down-regulation. Affected genes are enriched for DNA replication processes, most of them being up-regulated. Twenty out of 22 genes encoding proteins involved in reducing reactive oxygen species accumulation were down-regulated. Dozens of genes encoding proteins with histone reader motifs were changed, including SmEED from the PRC2 complex. We targeted SmEZH2 methyltransferase PRC2 component with a new EZH2 inhibitor (GSK343) and showed a synergistic effect with TSA, significantly increasing schistosomula mortality. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Genome-wide gene expression analyses have identified important pathways and cellular functions that were affected and may explain the schistosomicidal effect of TSA HDACi. The change in expression of dozens of histone reader genes involved in regulation of the epigenetic program in S. mansoni can be used as a starting point to look for possible novel schistosomicidal targets.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille (CIIL) - U1019 - UMR 9017

Source :

Harvested from HAL