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Histone H2B Monoubiquitination Functions Cooperatively with FACT to Regulate Elongation by RNA Polymerase II View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Histone H2B Monoubiquitination Functions Cooperatively with FACT to Regulate Elongation by RNA Polymerase II Rushad Pavri,1 Bing Zhu,1 Guohong Li,1 Patrick Trojer,1 Subhrangsu Mandal,1 Ali Shilatifard,2 and Danny Reinberg1,* 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Division of Nucleic Acids Enzymology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 683 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA 2 Department of Biochemistry, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1402 South Grand Boulevard, Saint Louis, MI 63104, USA *Contact: [email protected] DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2006.04.029 SUMMARY dense chromatin thus permitting the subsequent binding of factors essential for transcription. In addition, gene acti- Over the past years, a large number of histone vation involves factors functioning independently of chro- posttranslational modifications have been de- matin such as the Mediator complex, which interacts scribed, some of which function to attain a with the activator and several components of the basal repressed chromatin structure, while others fa- transcriptional machinery, such as TFIID and RNA poly- cilitate activation by allowing access of regula- merase II (Lewis and Reinberg, 2003; Malik and Roeder, tors to DNA. Histone H2B monoubiquitination 2000; Rachez and Freedman, 2001; Taatjes et al., 2004). Moreover, several gene-specific cofactors are believed is a mark associated with transcriptional activ- to confer cell- or tissue-specificity to a given promoter or ity. Using a highly reconstituted chromatin-tran- a subset of promoters (Spiegelman and Heinrich, 2004; scription system incorporating the inducible Taatjes et al., 2004). RARb2 promoter, we find that the establishment Although much is known regarding events leading up to of H2B monoubiquitination by RNF20/40 and transcription initiation in a chromatin context, much less is UbcH6 is dependent on the transcription elon- known about the subsequent postinitiation events associ- gation regulator complex PAF, the histone ated with transcription elongation. Efficient elongation on chaperone FACT, and transcription. H2B mono- chromatin entails the removal of the physical barrier im- ubiquitination facilitates FACT function, thereby posed by the nucleosome on the transcribing RNA poly- stimulating transcript elongation and the gener- merase II. The best-characterized factor associated with ation of longer transcripts. These in vitro analy- elongation on chromatin templates is FACT, a dimeric pro- tein that contains an HMG1 domain (Orphanides et al., ses and corroborating in vivo experiments dem- 1998). FACT allows elongation on chromatin templates onstrate that elongation by RNA polymerase II by binding and displacing the H2A/H2B dimer from the through the nucleosomal barrier is minimally core nucleosomes (Belotserkovskaya et al., 2003). The for- dependent upon (1) FACT and (2) the recruit- mation of a hexamer (a nucleosome depleted of one H2A/ ment of PAF and the H2B monoubiquitination H2B dimer) is believed to be essential for the passage of machinery. RNA polymerase II through the nucleosomal barrier (Kir- eeva et al., 2002; Belotserkovskaya et al., 2003). FACT was also shown to be essential for the reestablishment of INTRODUCTION the nucleosome (Belotserkovskaya et al., 2003) and for viability in yeast (Malone et al., 1991; Rowley et al., 1991; Transcription regulation at the level of chromatin is a com- Orphanides et al., 1999), and mutants of FACT subunits plex and tightly regulated process. To date, several fami- in yeast show significant elongation defects (Formosa lies of chromatin-modifying factors have been associated et al., 2002). with gene activation, notably the ATP-dependent remodel- Genetic studies in yeast have implicated the PAF com- ing enzymes (SWI/SNF and NURF) (Glass and Rosenfeld, plex and monoubiquitination of lysine 123 of histone H2B 2000), histone acetyl-transferases (HATs, e.g., p300) (H2BK123ub1) in transcription elongation (Shi et al., (Glass and Rosenfeld, 2000), and histone methyl-transfer- 1996; Dover et al., 2002; Mueller and Jaehning, 2002; ases (e.g., CARM1 and the MLL-related family) (Milne et al., Squazzo et al., 2002; Rondon et al., 2004; Xiao et al., 2002; An et al., 2004). These factors are believed to decon- 2005). Importantly, H2BK123ub1 is dependent on PAF Cell 125, 703–717, May 19, 2006 ª2006 Elsevier Inc. 703 (Krogan et al., 2003a; Ng et al., 2003; Wood et al., 2003b). mally dependent on FACT, PAF, and H2B monoubiquiti- In yeast, PAF has been shown to interact with RNA poly- nation at lysine 120 (H2BK120ub1). We hypothesize that merase II (Shi et al., 1996; Shi et al., 1997; Mueller and H2B monoubiquitination stimulates FACT-mediated dis- Jaehning, 2002) as well as with the Set1 and Set2 histone placement of an H2A/H2B dimer from the core nucleo- lysine methyltransferases (HKMTases) (Li et al., 2002; Kro- some and that this modification enhances the frequency gan et al., 2003b). Set1 and Set2 methylate lysines 4 and 36 of RNA polymerase II passage through the nucleosome. of histone H3, respectively, and both of these marks are associated with active genes (Briggs et al., 2001; Miller RESULTS et al., 2001; Li et al., 2002; Nagy et al., 2002; Noma and Grewal, 2002; Krogan et al., 2003b; Schaft et al., 2003). A Fully Reconstituted Chromatin Transcription Moreover, methylation of lysine 4 of histone H3 is contin- System: FACT Is Required for RAR-Dependent gent upon H2Bub1 at lysine 123 in yeast (Dover et al., Transcription 2002; Sun and Allis, 2002). However, the function of these As in our previous study, we used a plasmid template com- modifications in elongation is unknown. Importantly, FACT posed of the natural promoter of the endogenous RARb2 and PAF have been shown to genetically and physically in- gene fused to b–globin (Figure 1A) (Dilworth et al., 1999). teract in yeast (Formosa et al., 2002; Krogan et al., 2002). Five RAR binding elements (RAREs) are located within However, in contrast to FACT, neither the PAF complex the promoter. Chromatin was assembled using the RSF nor H2BK123ub1 is essential for viability in yeast, although system and purified core histones derived from HeLa cells mutants in PAF or the monoubiquitinating factors, Rad6 (Figure 1B) or bacteria (Figure 2C) as described in Experi- and Bre1, do show elongation defects (Shi et al., 1996; mental Procedures. Shi et al., 1997; Wood et al., 2003a). Using a completely reconstituted transcription assay We previously used the naturally inducible RARb2 pro- composed of highly purified human general transcription moter as a paradigm to study the mechanisms of activa- factors (GTFs), human RNA polymerase II, human Media- tor-dependent transcription in vitro (Pavri et al., 2005). tor, and PARP-1, ligand-dependent transcription requires The retinoic acid receptor (RAR) is a member of the nu- SWI/SNF and p300 chromatin modifying factors when the clear receptor superfamily of transcription factors and ex- chromatin template is assembled in Drosophila embryo ists as a dimer with the retinoid X receptor (RXR) (Mangels- extracts (Pavri et al., 2005). However, we failed to detect dorf and Evans, 1995). The RAR/RXR heterodimer is such transcription from RSF-assembled templates even repressive in its unliganded state, but it is converted to in the presence of SWI/SNF and p300 (Figure 1C, lanes an activator via a conformational change upon binding 7 and 8). The crude extracts previously used to assemble of its cognate ligand, retinoic acid (RA). RAR-mediated chromatin likely contained one or more activities essential ligand-dependent transcription from this promoter re- for transcription. We tested if FACT was one of these miss- quires a novel cofactor, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 ing activities. (PARP-1), in conjunction with Mediator in vitro and in vivo. Upon addition of purified recombinant FACT, we ob- PARP-1 is responsible for switching Mediator to its active served modest levels of ligand-dependent transcription conformation upon induction through the release (or con- (Figure 1C, lanes 9–16). Importantly, the FACT-dependent formational change) of the negative module of Mediator transcription required SWI/SNF and p300 (Figure 1C, that includes Cdk8 (Pavri et al., 2005). Although this sys- lanes 3–6) as well as Mediator, RAR, and PARP-1 (Figure tem was largely reconstituted with highly purified factors, 1C, lanes 17–24), as previously established in vivo (Pavri chromatin was assembled with crude Drosophila embryo et al., 2005). Yet the transcription signals were weak rela- extracts, precluding the complete identification of the tive to those obtained previously utilizing crude S190 ex- minimal set of factors required for transcription through tracts, suggesting other factor(s) were still missing. chromatin. We now developed a fully reconstituted chromatin sys- PAF Complex and H2BK120ub1 Cooperatively tem using highly purified human factors that integrates Stimulate FACT-Dependent Transcription a recombinant chromatin assembly system comprised of We next tested whether the PAF complex and recombinant human RSF (LeRoy et al., 1998). RSF con- H2BK120ub1 might stimulate FACT-dependent transcrip- tains an ATPase subunit (SNF2H) and a larger subunit tion based on their reported interaction (Sims et al., (Rsf1) of unknown function (LeRoy et al., 1998; Loyola 2004).We previously reported the purification of human et al., 2003). This recombinant RSF-chromatin reconsti- PAF complex (Zhu et al., 2005a) as well as the complex tuted system has two major advantages: (1) in association that mediates H2BK120ub1 composed of the ubiquitin with our reconstituted human transcription system, it al- E3 ligases RNF20/40 (Figure 2A) and the E2 ubiquitin con- lows us to determine the minimal set of factors required jugating enzyme UbcH6 (Zhu et al., 2005b). to facilitate transcription through chromatin, and conse- Upon addition of either the purified PAF complex quently (2) it allows us to determine the specific role(s) of (Figure 2A) or the H2B monoubiquitination factors to the re- these factors and their underlying mechanisms.
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