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BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH PART A-CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR TERATOLOGY
卷 91, 期 8, 页码 666-671出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20827
关键词
epigenetics; leiomyoma; uterus; prostate; reproductive tract; environmental exposures; estrogen; histone methyltransferase
资金
- National Institutes of Health through MD Anderson's Cancer Center Support [P30CA016672]
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [RC2ES018789, R01ES008263, P30ES007784]
During development, epigenetic programs are installed on the genome that direct differentiation and normal tissue and organ function in adulthood. Consequently, development is also a period of susceptibility to reprogramming of the epigenome. Developmental reprogramming occurs when an adverse stimulus or insult interrupts the proper install of epigenetic programs during development, reprogramming normal physiologic responses in such a way as to promote disease later in life. Some of the best examples of developmental reprogramming involve the reproductive tract, where early life exposures to environmental estrogens can increase susceptibility to benign and malignant tumors in adulthood including leiomyoma (fibroids), endometrial, and prostate cancer. Although specific mechanism(s) by which environmental estrogens reprogram the developing epigenome were unknown, both DNA and histone methylation were considered likely targets for epigenetic reprogramming. We have now identified a mechanism by which developmental exposures to environmental estrogens reprogram the epigenome by inducing inappropriate activation of nongenomic estrogen receptor (ER) signaling. Activation of nongenomic ER signaling via the phosphotidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathway activates the kinase AKT/PKB in the developing reproductive tract, which phosphorylates the histone lysine methyltransferase (HKMT) EZH2, the key installer of epigenetic histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3). AKT phosphorylation inactivates EZH2, decreasing levels of H3K27 methylation, a repressive mark that inhibits gene expression, in the developing uterus. As a result of this developmental reprogramming, many estrogen-responsive genes become hypersensitive to estrogen in adulthood, exhibiting elevated expression throughout the estrus cycle, and resulting in a hyper-estrogenized phenotype in the adult uterus that promotes development of hormone-dependent tumors. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 91:666-671, 2011. (C) 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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