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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 52, Pages 54348-54357Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M410021200
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL67099] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD20632] Funding Source: Medline
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In this study we demonstrate that the class II nuclear hormone receptor, farnesoid X-receptor (FXR), incorporates histone methyltransferase activity within the gene locus for bile salt export pump (BSEP), a well established FXR target gene that functions as an ATP-dependent canalicular bile acid transporter. This methyltransferase activity is directed specifically to arginine 17 of histone H3. We demonstrate that FXR is directly associated with (c) under baro-activator- (a) under bar ssociated (a) under bar rginine (m) under bar ethyltransferase 1 (CARM1) activity. Furthermore, we show by chromatin immunoprecipitation that the ligand-dependent activation of the human BSEP locus is associated with a simultaneous increase of FXR and CARM1 occupation. The increased occupation of the BSEP locus by CARM1 also corresponds with the increased deposition of Arg-17 methylation and Lys-9 acetylation of histone H3 within the FXR DNA-binding element of BSEP. Consistent with these findings, CARM1 led to increased BSEP promoter activity with an intact FXR regulatory element, whereas CARM1 failed to transactivate the BSEP promoter with a mutated FXRE. Induction of endogenous BSEP mRNA and Arg-17 methylation by FXR regulatory element ligand, CDCA, requires CARM1 activity. Therefore, histone methylation at Arg-17 by CARM1 is a downstream target of signaling through ligand-mediated activation of FXR. Our studies provide evidence that FXR directly recruits specific chromatin modifying activity of CARM1 necessary for full potentiation of the BSEP locus in vivo.
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