Diverse nucleosome Site-Selectivity among histone deacetylase complexes

  1. Zhipeng A Wang
  2. Christopher J Millard
  3. Chia-Liang Lin
  4. Jennifer E Gurnett
  5. Mingxuan Wu
  6. Kwangwoon Lee
  7. Louise Fairall
  8. John WR Schwabe  Is a corresponding author
  9. Philip A Cole  Is a corresponding author
  1. Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, United States
  2. Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, United States
  3. Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
6 figures, 3 tables and 1 additional file

Figures

Histone H3 tail acetylation and HDAC complexes.

(A) Different acetylation sites on H3 N-terminal tail studied in this manuscript; (B) Components of four well- established HDAC1 complexes CoREST (LSD1, HDAC1, CoREST1), NuRD (MTA1, HDAC1, RBBP4), …

Figure 2 with 3 supplements
The semi-synthesis of full-length histone H3 with site-specific acetylations.

(A) Synthesis of H3 proteins with site-specific acetylations; gH3: globular region of histone H3; (B) MALDI-MS for a semi-synthetic histone H3 product, using H3K27ac as an example, *: an unknown …

Figure 2—figure supplement 1
MALDI-TOF spectra for H3K9/14/18/23/27ac 1–34 TOG peptides.
Figure 2—figure supplement 2
MALDI-TOF spectra for H3K9/14/18/23/27ac full length histone proteins.

Final product with single charged peak (1H+) and double charged peak (2H+) are labeled; minor gH3 impurity is also labeled; For H3K9ac(C110A) and H3K27ac, *: an unknown minor impurity.

Figure 2—figure supplement 3
The assembly of H3 proteins with acetylations into corresponding nucleosomes.

(A) Assembly of nucleosome with site-specific acetylated H3 in vitro with 146 bp Widom 601 DNA; (B) SDS-PAGE for octamer, using H3K9ac and H3K14ac as examples.

Figure 3 with 2 supplements
Typical results for Western-blot based deacetylation activity assay using different complexes on nucleosome with H3K9ac (n = 2 for each assay).
Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Primary antibody specificity test for anti-H3K23ac and anti-H3K27ac.

SDS-PAGE with histone H3K9ac, H3K23ac and H3K27ac was stained by (A) Coomassie, or transferred to membrane followed by blotting with (B) anti-H3K9ac, (C) anti-H3K23ac, or (D) anti-H3K27ac, separately.

Figure 3—figure supplement 2
The expression of HDAC complexes.

CoREST including LSD1 (1–852), HDAC1 (1–482), Flag tagged CoREST1(86–485); NuRD including Flag tagged MTA1 (1–715), HDAC1 (1–482), RBBP4 (1–425); Sin3B including Flag tagged Sin3B (1–1162), HDAC1 …

Figure 4 with 6 supplements
Typical results for Western-blot based deacetylation activity assay with 5 nM MiDAC on different nucleosomes with site-specific acetylation.

(A) nucleosome with H3K9ac, n = 2, V/E = 1.2 ± 0.19 min−1; (B) nucleosome with H3K14ac, n = 3, V/E = 0.52 ± 0.034 min−1; (C) nucleosome with H3K18ac, n = 2, V/E = 0.17 ± 0.0051 min−1; (D) nucleosome …

Figure 4—figure supplement 1
CoREST (CoREST-LSD1-HDAC1) activity assay over nucleosomes or histones with acetylation at different sites.

(A) H3K9ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 3 for histone assay), (B) H3K14ac (n = 3 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone assay); n = 3 for histone assay), (C) H3K18ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay;…

Figure 4—figure supplement 2
MiDAC (MiDEAS-DNTTIP1-HDAC1) activity assay over nucleosomes or histones with acetylation at different sites.

(A) H3K9ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone assay), (B) H3K14ac (n = 3 for nucleosome assay; n = 3 for histone assay), (C) H3K18ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone …

Figure 4—figure supplement 3
NuRD (MTA1-RBBP4-HDAC1) activity assay over nucleosomes or histones with acetylation at different sites.

(A) H3K9ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone assay), (B) H3K14ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone assay), (C) H3K18ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone …

Figure 4—figure supplement 4
Sin3B (Sin3-HDAC1-RBBP4) activity assay over nucleosomes or histones with acetylation at different sites.

(A) H3K9ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone assay), (B) H3K14ac (n = 3 for nucleosome assay; n = 3 for histone assay), (C) H3K18ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 2 for histone …

Figure 4—figure supplement 5
SMRT (GPS2-NCoR2 chimera-HDAC3-TBL1) activity assay over nucleosomes or histones with acetylation at different sites.

(A) H3K9ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 3 for histone assay), (B) H3K14ac (n = 3 for nucleosome assay; n = 4 for histone assay), (C) H3K18ac (n = 5 for nucleosome assay; n = 4 for histone …

Figure 4—figure supplement 6
HDAC1 activity assay over nucleosomes or histones with acetylation at different sites.

(A) H3K9ac (n = 3 for nucleosome assay; n = 3 for histone assay), (B) H3K14ac (n = 5 for nucleosome assay; n = 3 for histone assay), (C) H3K18ac (n = 2 for nucleosome assay; n = 4 for histone …

Figure 5 with 3 supplements
Scheme and kinetics for CoREST and MiDAC complex activity on nucleosome with mutations H3K9acR8G (n = 3 for CoREST assay, n = 5 for MiDAC assay) and 14acG13R (n = 6 for CoREST assay, n = 3 for MiDAC assay).

(A) The sequence of H3K9acR8G comparing with WT-H3K9ac; (B) The sequence of H3K14acG13R comparing with WT-H3K14ac; (C) Table for the rate constants of different complexes on nucleosomes with …

Figure 5—figure supplement 1
MALDI-TOF spectra for H3K9acR8G H3K14acG13R 1–34 peptides, and their corresponding full length histone proteins.
Figure 5—figure supplement 2
CoREST activity assay over nucleosomes with H3K9acR8G or H3K14acG13R.

(A) H3K9acR8G (n = 3 for nucleosome assay), (B) H3K14acG13R (n = 6 for nucleosome assay). (C) Curve fitting for H3K9acR8G nucleosome kinetics with 30 nM CoREST, and (D) Curve fitting for H3K14acG13R …

Figure 5—figure supplement 3
MiDAC activity assay over nucleosomes with H3K9acR8G or H3K14acG13R.

(A) H3K9acR8G (n = 5 for nucleosome assay), (B) H3K14acG13R (n = 3 for nucleosome assay). (C) Curve fitting for H3K9acR8G nucleosome kinetics with 5 nM MiDAC, and (D) Curve fitting for H3K14acG13R …

Figure 6 with 1 supplement
Western-blot and kinetics of NuRD complex activity on nucleosome with H4K16ac.

(A) Western-blot based deacetylation activity assay with 40 nM NuRD complex (HDAC1-MTA1-RBBP4) on H4K16ac nucleosomes blot with site-specific acetylation antibody and anti-H3 antibody to show the …

Figure 6—figure supplement 1
NuRD activity assay over H4K16ac nucleosome.

(A) H4K16ac nucleosome (n = 3 for nucleosome assay), and (B) Curve fitting for the nucleosome kinetics with 40 nM NuRD.

Tables

Table 1
Rate constants of different HDAC1/HDAC3 complexes on various histone proteins with site-specific acetylation.

Kinetic values shown are ± S.E.M. For each enzymatic reaction on histone proteins: the semi-synthetic H3K9/14/18/23/27ac histone H3 proteins (1.0 μM) were incubated with different HDAC1 and HDAC3 …

Normalized
V/[E] (min−1)
HDAC1CoREST(RCOR1)MiDAC(MiDEAS)NuRD(MTA1)Sin3B(Sin3)SMRT(NCoR2)
H3K9ac0.30 ± 0.0462.1 ± 0.380.42 ± 0.0860.84 ± 0.380.56 ± 0.150.44 ± 0.10
H3K14ac0.65 ± 0.402.8 ± 0.180.79 ± 0.291.5 ± 0.581.1 ± 0.0930.78 ± 0.34
H3K18ac1.1 ± 0.271.8 ± 0.370.45 ± 0.290.86 ± 0.321.2 ± 0.241.5 ± 0.57
H3K23ac0.64 ± 0.102.6 ± 0.550.22 ± 0.0370.36 ± 0.120.93 ± 0.200.65 ± 0.32
H3K27ac1.1 ± 0.252.0 ± 0.350.43 ± 0.0381.5 ± 0.481.1 ± 0.311.8 ± 0.80
Table 2
Rate constants of different HDAC1 and HDAC3 complexes on various nucleosomes with site-specific acetylation on H3.

Kinetic values shown are ± S.E.M. For each enzymatic reaction on nucleosomes: the semi-synthetic H3K9/14/18/23/27ac nucleosomes (100 nM) were incubated with different HDAC1 and HDAC3 complexes at …

V/[E] (min−1)HDAC1CoREST(RCOR1)MiDAC(MiDEAS)NuRD(MTA1)Sin3B(Sin3)SMRT(NCoR2)
H3K9acN.D.0.10 ± 0.0121.2 ± 0.190.012 ± 0.00320.0050 ± 0.00430.046 ± 0.0045
H3K14acN.D.<0.0050.52 ± 0.0340.0091 ± 0.00080<0.0050.019 ± 0.0022
H3K18acN.D.0.062 ± 0.00190.17 ± 0.00510.0046 ± 0.000880.0082 ± 0.00300.021 ± 0.0039
H3K23acN.D.0.067 ± 0.0100.048 ± 0.00710.0071 ± 0.000830.0084 ± 0.00330.0081 ± 0.0028
H3K27acN.D.0.093 ± 0.00880.18 ± 0.0360.0077 ± 0.00280.0089 ± 0.000530.039 ± 0.0027
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