Molecular & Cellular Proteomics · 2009 · 99 citations · 41 references
Life SciencesBiochemistryMolecular BiologyChromatin BiologyChromatin StructureProteomicsChromatinHistone ModificationsHistone Post-translational ModificationsHistone ProteinsMass Spectrometry-based ProteomicsPost-translational Modification AnalysisHeterochromatin InteractionsHeterochromatin MaintenanceHeterochromatin Protein 1Heterochromatin RegulationHistone Acetylation At Lysine 9Histone MethylationHistone Methylation At Lysine 9Histone-lysine Methylation
Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) family members (α, β, and γ) bind histone H3 methylated at Lys-9, leading to gene silencing and heterochromatin formation. Several previous reports have suggested that HP1s are post-translationally modified, yet sites of modification have not yet been exhaustively determined. Here we perform the first comprehensive proteomic analysis of all HP1 isoforms using tandem mass spectrometry. Our data reveal that all HP1 isoforms are highly modified in a manner analogous to histones including phosphorylation, acetylation, methylation, and formylation, including several sites having multiple different types of modifications. Additionally, many of these modifications are found in both the chromo- and chromoshadow domains, suggesting that they may have an important role in modulating HP1 interactions or functions. These studies are the first to systematically map the abundant sites of covalent modifications on HP1 isoforms and provide the foundation for future investigations to test whether these modifications are essential in heterochromatin maintenance or other nuclear processes. Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) family members (α, β, and γ) bind histone H3 methylated at Lys-9, leading to gene silencing and heterochromatin formation. Several previous reports have suggested that HP1s are post-translationally modified, yet sites of modification have not yet been exhaustively determined. Here we perform the first comprehensive proteomic analysis of all HP1 isoforms using tandem mass spectrometry. Our data reveal that all HP1 isoforms are highly modified in a manner analogous to histones including phosphorylation, acetylation, methylation, and formylation, including several sites having multiple different types of modifications. Additionally, many of these modifications are found in both the chromo- and chromoshadow domains, suggesting that they may have an important role in modulating HP1 interactions or functions. These studies are the first to systematically map the abundant sites of covalent modifications on HP1 isoforms and provide the foundation for future investigations to test whether these modifications are essential in heterochromatin maintenance or other nuclear processes. The mammalian HP1α, β, and γ proteins are a family of chromatin-associated proteins that are homologs of the Drosophila heterochromatin protein 1(HP1) 1The abbreviations used are:HP1heterochromatin protein 1CDchromodomainCSDC-terminal chromoshadow domainPTMpost-translational modificationHEKhuman embryonic kidneyMSmass spectrometryLC-MS/MSliquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry., originally identified as a protein required for position effect variegation. Position effect variegation is the silencing phenomenon that occurs when a block of euchromatin is placed adjacent to a region of heterochromatin (1Elgin S.C. Grewal S.I. Heterochromatin: silence is golden.Curr. Biol. 2003; 13: R895-R898Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). HP1α, β, and γ proteins all contain a N-terminal chromodomain (CD) and a C-terminal chromoshadow domain (CSD) that are linked together by a flexible hinge region (2Fanti L. Pimpinelli S. HP1: a functionally multifaceted protein.Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 2008; 18: 169-174Crossref PubMed Scopus (100) Google Scholar). The CD in HP1 is one of many specialized domains found in a number of other chromatin-associated proteins that recognizes histone post-translational modifications (PTMs). In particular, x-ray crystallographic studies have demonstrated that the HP1 chromodomain binds directly to the histone H3 protein trimethylated on Lys-9 (3Jacobs S.A. Khorasanizadeh S. Structure of HP1 chromodomain bound to a lysine 9-methylated histone H3 tail.Science. 2002; 295: 2080-2083Crossref PubMed Scopus (651) Google Scholar). heterochromatin protein 1 chromodomain C-terminal chromoshadow domain post-translational modification human embryonic kidney mass spectrometry liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. The C-terminal CSD domain is structurally similar to the CD and is thought to be responsible for dimerization and interactions with other proteins. The mammalian HP1α, β, and γ proteins have been shown to form both homo- and heterodimers with each other (4Nielsen A.L. Oulad-Abdelghani M. Ortiz J.A. Remboutsika E. Chambon P. Losson R. Heterochromatin formation in mammalian cells: interaction between histones and HP1 proteins.Mol. Cell. 2001; 7: 729-739Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (312) Google Scholar). Although the HP1α, β, and γ proteins have similar structures and dimerize with each other, studies suggest they have non-overlapping functions. As the name implies, the HP1 proteins are generally associated with constitutive heterochromatic loci; however, HP1γ localizes with both hetero- and euchromatin (5Minc E. Courvalin J.C. Buendia B. HP1γ associates with euchromatin and heterochromatin in mammalian nuclei and chromosomes.Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 2000; 90: 279-284Crossref PubMed Scopus (127) Google Scholar). Moreover, although microscopy analysis has demonstrated that HP1α and HP1β localize together at many heterochromatic loci, they do not completely overlap, further suggesting that they can function independently (6Dialynas G.K. Terjung S. Brown J.P. Aucott R.L. Baron-Luhr B. Singh P.B. Georgatos S.D. Plasticity of HP1 proteins in mammalian cells.J. Cell Sci. 2007; 120: 3415-3424Crossref PubMed Scopus (63) Google Scholar). Furthermore, HP1γ was found to be associated with the DNA of actively transcribed genes by chromatin immunoprecipitation (7Vakoc C.R. Mandat S.A. Olenchock B.A. Blobel G.A. Histone H3 lysine 9 methylation and HP1gamma are associated with transcription elongation through mammalian chromatin.Mol. Cell. 2005; 19: 381-391Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (561) Google Scholar). All three of the mammalian HP1 proteins can complex with the co-repressor protein, KAP-1/Tif1β. Interestingly, this protein is also a post-translational code-reading protein that contains a bromodomain (acetyl-lysine binding) and a plant homeodomain (methyl-lysine binding). While the majority of KAP-1/Tif1β co-localizes with HP1α and HP1β, there are some non-overlapping foci, suggesting the bromodomain and plant homeodomain of KAP-1/Tif1β is reading a sub-code found within some heterochromatic loci (8Cammas F. Janoshazi A. Lerouge T. Losson R. Dynamic and selective interactions of the transcriptional corepressor TIF1 beta with the heterochromatin protein HP1 isotypes during cell differentiation.Differentiation. 2007; 75: 627-637Crossref PubMed Scopus (27) Google Scholar, 9Bártová E. Pacherník J. k J. Kozubík A. Kozubek S. Differentiation-specific association of HP1alpha and HP1beta with chromocentres is correlated with clustering of TIF1beta at these sites.Histochem. Cell Biol. 2007; 127: 375-388Crossref PubMed Scopus (29) Google Scholar). Although it is not clear how the HP1 proteins complex with KAP-1/Tif1β, the CSD is required for this interaction (10Lechner M.S. Schultz D.C. Negorev D. Maul G.G. Rauscher 3rd, F.J. The mammalian heterochromatin protein 1 binds diverse nuclear proteins through a common motif that targets the chromoshadow domain.Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2005; 331: 929-937Crossref PubMed Scopus (162) Google Scholar). Interestingly, it has been reported that KAP-1/Tif1β is a protein kinase that can phosphorylate all three of the mammalian HP1s and autophosphorylate itself (11Nielsen A.L. Ortiz J.A. You J. Oulad-Abdelghani M. Khechumian R. Gansmuller A. Chambon P. Losson R. Interaction with members of the heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) family and histone deacetylation are differentially involved in transcriptional silencing by members of the TIF1 family.EMBO J. 1999; 18: 6385-6395Crossref PubMed Scopus (296) Google Scholar). The HP1 proteins have also been shown to interact with a number of other proteins/complexes that are involved with chromatin metabolism such as; the CAF-1 complex, a histone deposition chaperone; the origin recognition complex, a protein complex required for DNA replication that binds to origins of replication; and the BRG1 complex, an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling machine (12Pak D.T. Pflumm M. Chesnokov I. Huang D.W. Kellum R. Marr J. Romanowski P. Botchan M.R. Association of the origin recognition complex with heterochromatin and HP1 in higher eukaryotes.Cell. 1997; 91: 311-323Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (340) Google Scholar, 13Nielsen A.L. Sanchez C. Ichinose H. Cerviño M. Lerouge T. Chambon P. Losson R. Selective interaction between the chromatin-remodeling factor BRG1 and the heterochromatin-associated protein HP1alpha.EMBO J. 2002; 21: 5797-5806Crossref PubMed Scopus (74) Google Scholar, 14Murzina N. Verreault A. Laue E. Stillman B. Heterochromatin dynamics in mouse cells: interaction between chromatin assembly factor 1 and HP1 proteins.Mol. Cell. 1999; 4: 529-540Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (260) Google Scholar). Like the target histones, the HP1 proteins themselves have been suggested to contain numerous PTMs such as phosphorylation, acetylation, or methylation. For example, it is well known that there are phosphorylation sites within a Drosophila HP1 protein mediated by several kinases, and that hyperphosphorylation of this HP1 is associated with heterochromatin formation and affects chromosomal localization (15Eissenberg J.C. Ge Y.W. Hartnett T. Increased phosphorylation of HP1, a heterochromatin-associated protein of Drosophila, is correlated with heterochromatin assembly.J. Biol. Chem. 1994; 269: 21315-21321Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). Meanwhile, mutations at these HP1 phosphorylation sites attenuate or abolish silencing activity (16Zhao T. Heyduk T. Eissenberg J.C. Phosphorylation site mutations in heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) reduce or eliminate silencing activity.J. Biol. Chem. 2001; 276: 9512-9518Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (68) Google Scholar). Interestingly, a hypophosphorylated form of Drosophila HP1 has also been shown to associate with the subunits of the origin recognition complex, while the hyperphosphorylated form is more tightly associated with interphase chromatin indicating that phosphorylation may regulate HP1 function (17Huang D.W. Fanti L. Pak D.T. Botchan M.R. Pimpinelli S. Kellum R. Distinct cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions of Drosophila heterochromatin protein 1: their phosphorylation levels and associations with origin recognition complex proteins.J. Cell Biol. 1998; 142: 307-318Crossref PubMed Scopus (103) Google Scholar). HP1γ phosphorylation at Ser-83 is found to be an exclusive euchromatin mark interacting with the regulatory protein Ku70 and this modified HP1γ isoform also demonstrates impaired silencing properties and is targeted to areas of transcriptional elongation (18Lomberk G. Bensi D. Fernandez-Zapico M.E. Urrutia R. Evidence for the existence of an within the histone Cell Biol. PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). HP1β phosphorylation at has been shown to be important during of the DNA as of the kinase kinase a in HP1 at sites and further N. J.A. chromatin that the DNA 2008; PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). The HP1 proteins have also been shown to other covalent modifications such as acetylation, methylation, and by with (18Lomberk G. Bensi D. Fernandez-Zapico M.E. Urrutia R. Evidence for the existence of an within the histone Cell Biol. PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). all this a of HP1 modification sites have been as comprehensive mass analysis has identified all HP1 we to systematically map the PTMs on the three mammalian HP1 homologs (α, β, and γ) using liquid chromatography to a mass Our that all HP1s are highly modified on many sites with many types of modifications. 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Increased phosphorylation of HP1, a heterochromatin-associated protein of Drosophila, is correlated with heterochromatin assembly.J. Biol. Chem. 1994; 269: 21315-21321Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google that in Drosophila HP1 is that phosphorylation levels during multiple HP1 isoforms Additionally, HP1 phosphorylation is first during the nuclear is the when heterochromatin first a role for HP1 phosphorylation in heterochromatin Our proteomic data are with HP1 at multiple sites in and we have identified HP1 as the N-terminal of of the HP1 that HP1 be a target by several such as kinase and kinase or protein kinase C. has been as a kinase involved in HP1γ phosphorylation that was identified through a and shown to bind HP1γ the chromoshadow domain N. H. T. 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