Wip1 Controls Global Heterochromatin Silencing via ATM/BRCA1-Dependent DNA Methylation
Menée à l'aide de modèles murins et à partir de données fournies par le projet "The Cancer Genome Atlas", cette étude met en évidence des mécanismes par lesquels, via la régulation de la méthylation de l'ADN, une surexpression de la phosphatase Wip1 accroît le taux de mutations du génome d'une tumeur du sein
Wip1 phosphatase is emerging as an important regulator of tumorigenesis, but no unifying mechanistic network has been proposed. We found that Wip1 plays a key role in the transcriptional regulation of heterochromatin-associated DNA sequences. Wip1 was required for epigenetic remodeling of repetitive DNA elements through regulation of BRCA1 interaction with HP1, the recruitment of DNA methyltransferases, and subsequent DNA methylation. Attenuation of ATM, in turn, reversed heterochromatin methylation. This mechanism was critical for the recruitment of the AID cytidine deaminase, and Wip1 levels strongly correlated with C-to-T substitutions and a total mutation load in primary breast cancers. We propose that Wip1 plays an important role in the regulation of global heterochromatin silencing and thus is critical in maintaining genome integrity.
"WIP1 modulates heterochromatin silencing
"ATM controls BRCA1-HP1-DNM3B targeting to heterochromatin
"WIP1 regulates recruitment of cytidine deaminases
"WIP1 levels correlate with mutation rate in human cancer
Cancer cell , article en libre accès, 2012