Journal
METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Volume 47, Issue -, Pages 453-462Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.04.022
Keywords
Lysine Acetylation; Sirtuin; O-acetyl-ADP-ribose; Metabolism; Heterochromatin; Epigenetics
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [NE1589/1-3, NE1589/5-1]
- Georg-August University of Gottingen
- Max Buchner Research Foundation
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Metabolic activity and epigenetic regulation of gene expression are intimately coupled. The mechanisms linking the two are incompletely understood. Sirtuins catalyse the removal of acetyl groups from lysine side chains of proteins using NAD(+) as a stoichiometric cofactor, thereby connecting the acetylation state of histones to energy supply of the cell. Here, we investigate the impact of lysine acetylation turnover by sirtuins on cell physiology by engineering Sirtase, an enzyme that self-acetylates and deacetylates in futile cycles. Expression of Sirtase in E. coll. leads to the consumption of the majority of the cellular NAD(+) supply, indicating that there is little negative feedback from reaction products, O-acetyl-ADP-ribose and nicotinamde, on sirtuin activity. Targeting Sirtase to a partially defective E silencer of the budding yeast mating type locus restores silencing, indicating that lysine acetylation turnover stabilizes heterochromatin in yeast. We speculate that this could be the consequence of local acetyl-CoA depletion because the effect is equally pronounced if the sirtuin moiety of Sirtase is exchanged with Hos3, a NAD(+)-independent deacetylase. Our findings support the concept that metabolism and epigenetic regulation are linked via modulation of heterochromatin stability by lysine acetylation turnover.
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