Retinoblastoma protein recruits histone deacetylase to repress transcription - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 1998 Feb 5;391(6667):597-601.
doi: 10.1038/35404.
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- PMID: 9468139
- DOI: 10.1038/35404
Retinoblastoma protein recruits histone deacetylase to repress transcription
A Brehm et al. Nature. 1998.
Abstract
The retinoblastoma protein (Rb) silences specific genes that are active in the S phase of the cell cycle and which are regulated by E2F transcription factors. Rb binds to the activation domain of E2F and then actively represses the promoter by a mechanism that is poorly understood. Here we show that Rb associates with a histone deacetylase, HDAC1, through the Rb 'pocket' domain. Association with the deacetylase is reduced by naturally occurring mutations in the pocket and by binding of the human papilloma virus oncoprotein E7. We find that Rb can recruit histone deacetylase to E2F and that Rb cooperates with HDAC1 to repress the E2F-regulated promoter of the gene encoding the cell-cycle protein cyclin E. Inhibition of histone deacetylase activity by trichostatin A (TSA) inhibits Rb-mediated repression of a chromosomally integrated E2F-regulated promoter. Our results indicate that histone deacetylases are important for regulating the cell cycle and that active transcriptional repression by Rb may involve the modification of chromatin structure.
Comment in
- Transcriptional repression. The cancer-chromatin connection.
DePinho RA. DePinho RA. Nature. 1998 Feb 5;391(6667):533, 535-6. doi: 10.1038/35257. Nature. 1998. PMID: 9468130 No abstract available.
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