Article ; Online: Histone proteoform analysis reveals epigenetic changes in adult mouse brown adipose tissue in response to cold stress.
2024 Volume 17, Issue 1, Page(s) 12
Abstract: Background: Regulation of the thermogenic response by brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an important component of energy homeostasis with implications for the treatment of obesity and diabetes. Our preliminary analyses of RNA-Seq data uncovered many nodes ... ...
| Abstract | Background: Regulation of the thermogenic response by brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an important component of energy homeostasis with implications for the treatment of obesity and diabetes. Our preliminary analyses of RNA-Seq data uncovered many nodes representing epigenetic modifiers that are altered in BAT in response to chronic thermogenic activation. Thus, we hypothesized that chronic thermogenic activation broadly alters epigenetic modifications of DNA and histones in BAT. Results: Motivated to understand how BAT function is regulated epigenetically, we developed a novel method for the first-ever unbiased top-down proteomic quantitation of histone modifications in BAT and validated our results with a multi-omic approach. To test our hypothesis, wildtype male C57BL/6J mice were housed under chronic conditions of thermoneutral temperature (TN, 28°C), mild cold/room temperature (RT, 22°C), or severe cold (SC, 8°C) and BAT was analyzed for DNA methylation and histone modifications. Methylation of promoters and intragenic regions in genomic DNA decrease in response to chronic cold exposure. Integration of DNA methylation and RNA expression datasets suggest a role for epigenetic modification of DNA in regulation of gene expression in response to cold. In response to cold housing, we observe increased bulk acetylation of histones H3.2 and H4, increased histone H3.2 proteoforms with di- and trimethylation of lysine 9 (K9me2 and K9me3), and increased histone H4 proteoforms with acetylation of lysine 16 (K16ac) in BAT. Conclusions: Our results reveal global epigenetically-regulated transcriptional "on" and "off" signals in murine BAT in response to varying degrees of chronic cold stimuli and establish a novel methodology to quantitatively study histones in BAT, allowing for direct comparisons to decipher mechanistic changes during the thermogenic response. Additionally, we make histone PTM and proteoform quantitation, RNA splicing, RRBS, and transcriptional footprint datasets available as a resource for future research. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Adipose Tissue, Brown/metabolism ; Mice ; Epigenesis, Genetic ; Male ; Histones/metabolism ; Cold-Shock Response ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; DNA Methylation ; Histone Code ; Thermogenesis ; Cold Temperature |
| Chemical Substances | Histones |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-04-27 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| ZDB-ID | 2462129-8 |
| ISSN | 1756-8935 ; 1756-8935 |
| ISSN (online) | 1756-8935 |
| ISSN | 1756-8935 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s13072-024-00536-8 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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