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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 132-U91Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2013
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- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Telethon [GGP07118]
- Ministry of University and Research (FIRB and PRIN)
- Ministry of Health
- Fondazione Roma Foundation
- Mariani Foundation
- Cenci-Bolognetti Foundation
- Rome Oncogenomic Center
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Hedgehog signalling is crucial for development and is deregulated in several tumours, including medulloblastoma. Regulation of the transcriptional activity of Gli (glioma-associated oncogene) proteins, effectors of the Hedgehog pathway, is poorly understood. We show here that Gli1 and Gli2 are acetylated proteins and that their HDAC-mediated deacetylation promotes transcriptional activation and sustains a positive autoregulatory loop through Hedgehog-induced upregulation of HDAC1. This mechanism is turned off by HDAC1 degradation through an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex formed by Cullin3 and REN, a Gli antagonist lost in human medulloblastoma. Whereas high HDAC1 and low REN expression in neural progenitors and medulloblastomas correlates with active Hedgehog signalling, loss of HDAC activity suppresses Hedgehog-dependent growth of neural progenitors and tumour cells. Consistent with this, abrogation of Gli1 acetylation enhances cellular proliferation and transformation. These data identify an integrated HDAC-and ubiquitin-mediated circuitry, where acetylation of Gli proteins functions as an unexpected key transcriptional checkpoint of Hedgehog signalling.
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