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  3. Destabilizing LSD1 by Jade-2 promotes neurogenesis: an antibraking system in neural development

Destabilizing LSD1 by Jade-2 promotes neurogenesis: an antibraking system in neural development

  • Mol Cell. 2014 Aug 7;55(3):482-94. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.06.006.
Xiao Han 1,  Bin Gui 1,  Cong Xiong 2,  Linnan Zhao 3,  Jing Liang 1,  Luyang Sun 1,  Xiaohan Yang 1,  Wenhua Yu 1,  Wenzhe Si 1,  Ruorong Yan 1,  Xia Yi 1,  Di Zhang 1,  Wanjin Li 1,  Lifang Li 1,  Jianguo Yang 1,  Yan Wang 4,  Yi Eve Sun 5,  Dai Zhang 3,  Anming Meng 2,  Yongfeng Shang 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research, Ministry of Education, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
  • 3 Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
  • 4 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China.
  • 5 Translational Center for Stem Cell Research, Tongji Hospital, Stem Cell Research Center, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200065, China; Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
  • 6 Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research, Ministry of Education, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China; 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China. Electronic address: yshang@hsc.pku.edu.cn.
PMID: 25018020 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.06.006
Abstract

Histone H3K4 demethylase LSD1 plays an important role in stem Cell Biology, especially in the maintenance of the silencing of differentiation genes. However, how the function of LSD1 is regulated and the differentiation genes are derepressed are not understood. Here, we report that elimination of LSD1 promotes embryonic stem cell (ESC) differentiation toward neural lineage. We showed that the destabilization of LSD1 occurs posttranscriptionally via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway by an E3 ubiquitin Ligase, Jade-2. We demonstrated that Jade-2 is a major LSD1 negative regulator during neurogenesis in vitro and in vivo in both mouse developing cerebral cortices and zebra fish embryos. Apparently, Jade-2-mediated degradation of LSD1 acts as an antibraking system and serves as a quick adaptive mechanism for re-establishing epigenetic landscape without more laborious transcriptional regulations. As a potential Anticancer strategy, Jade-2-mediated LSD1 degradation could potentially be used in neuroblastoma cells to induce differentiation toward postmitotic neurons.

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