Abstract
Precise control of transcriptional programmes underlying metazoan development is modulated by enzymatically active co-regulatory complexes, coupled with epigenetic strategies. One thing that remains unclear is how specific members of histone modification enzyme families, such as histone methyltransferases and demethylases, are used in vivo to simultaneously orchestrate distinct developmental gene activation and repression programmes. Here, we report that the histone lysine demethylase, LSD1—a component of the CoREST-CtBP co-repressor complex—is required for late cell-lineage determination and differentiation during pituitary organogenesis. LSD1 seems to act primarily on target gene activation programmes, as well as in gene repression programmes, on the basis of recruitment of distinct LSD1-containing co-activator or co-repressor complexes. LSD1-dependent gene repression programmes can be extended late in development with the induced expression of ZEB1, a Krüppel-like repressor that can act as a molecular beacon for recruitment of the LSD1-containing CoREST-CtBP co-repressor complex, causing repression of an additional cohort of genes, such as Gh, which previously required LSD1 for activation. These findings suggest that temporal patterns of expression of specific components of LSD1 complexes modulate gene regulatory programmes in many mammalian organs.
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We thank C. Nelson and L.Wang for technical assistance, L. Olson for generating Pitx1 Cre+ mice, Y. Geng for the Ccne1 promoter reporter, W. Herr for the generous gift of anti-WDR5 antibody, A. Gonzalez, J. Liu for advice on reagents, and J. Hightower and M. Fisher for figure and manuscript preparation. M.G.R is an investigator with HHMI. This work was supported by grants from the NIH and NCI to M.G.R., C.K.G. and X.-D.F.
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Wang, J., Scully, K., Zhu, X. et al. Opposing LSD1 complexes function in developmental gene activation and repression programmes. Nature 446, 882–887 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05671
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