Kynurenine, 3-OH-kynurenine, and anthranilate are nutrient metabolites that alter H3K4 trimethylation and H2AS40 O-GlcNAcylation at hypothalamus-related loci

Epigenetic mechanisms can establish and maintain mitotically stable patterns of gene expression while retaining the DNA sequence. These mechanisms can be affected by environmental factors such as nutrients. The importance of intracellular dosages of nutrient metabolites such as acetyl coenzyme A and S-adenosylmethionine, which are utilized as donors for post-translational modifications, is well-known in epigenetic regulation; however, the significance of indirect metabolites in epigenetic regulation is not clear. In this study, we screened for metabolites that function as epigenetic modulators. Because the expression of genes related to hypothalamic function is reportedly affected by nutritional conditions, we used a neural cell culture system and evaluated hypothalamic-linked loci. We supplemented the culture medium with 129 metabolites separately during induction of human-iPS-derived neural cells and used high-throughput ChIP-qPCR to determine the epigenetic status at 37 hypothalamus-linked loci. We found three metabolites (kynurenine, 3-OH-kynurenine, and anthranilate) from tryptophan pathways that increased H3K4 trimethylation and H2AS40 O-GlcNAcylation, resulting in upregulated gene expression at most loci, except those encoding pan-neural markers. Dietary supplementation of these three metabolites and the resulting epigenetic modification were important for stability in gene expression. In conclusion, our findings provide a better understanding of how nutrients play a role in epigenetic mechanisms.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 9(2019), 1 vom: 24. Dez., Seite 19768

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hayakawa, Koji [VerfasserIn]
Nishitani, Kenta [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

0YS975XI6W
27723548JL
3-hydroxykynurenine
343-65-7
Anthranilic acid
Histones
Journal Article
Kynurenine
Ortho-Aminobenzoates
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 05.11.2020

Date Revised 10.01.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-019-56341-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM304751707