NowledgmentsWe thank Marc Loup for technical assistance, Clothilde Roux and Olivier Boulat for measurement of metabolites in culture medium and Andrea Superti-Furga for critical discussion on experimental strategy and result interpretation.Brain Cell Damage in purchase 3-Bromopyruvic acid Glutaric Aciduria Type IAuthor ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: DB OB. Performed the experiments: PJ OB PZ HH DB. Analyzed the data: PJ OB PZ DB.Contributed reagents/Fexinidazole cost materials/analysis tools: HH OB LB DB. Wrote the paper: DB OB PZ LB.
Protein arginine methylation is a post-translational modification (PTM) that has been implicated in a large variety of important cellular functions such as signalling, DNA repair, RNA maturation and nucleocytoplasmic transport, protein protection, ribosomal assembly, and regulation of gene expression [1]. In mammalian cells arginine methylation is performed by a sequence-related family of protein arginine methyl transferases termed PRMTs. Given that this family of enzymes plays an integral role in many cellular processes, it is unsurprising that their dysregulation is involved in several human diseases [1?]. Currently, nine different human 25331948 PRMTs are known (PRMT1-9). PRMTs share a set of conserved sequence motifs and a THW (threonine-histidinetryptophan) loop, but differ in the presence of additional protein domains, cellular localization, and tissue expression. There does not appear to be major redundancy between these enzymes since mouse knockouts display generally clear and dramatic phenotypes [1]. PRMT6 is a predominantly nuclear enzyme characterized by substrates specificity and by automethylation [5]. In particular, PRMT6 is the major PRMT responsible for histone H3R2 methylation and it has a clear role in antagonizing the MixedLineage Leukaemia (MLL)-complex-dependent methylation of theLys-4 residue [6?]. Methylation of H2AR29 is specifically enriched at genes repressed by PRMT6, implicating also this modification in transcriptional repression [9]. In addition PRMT6 binds and methylates the architectural transcription factor HMGA1 [10,11]. These evidences underline an important function for this enzyme in the context of chromatin structure organization and epigenetic regulation. PRMT6 has shown to directly impact transcription, in fact thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) was identified as a transcriptional repression target of PRMT6 by directly regulating the TSP-1 promoter activity [12]. Further involvement of PRMT6 in regulation of gene expression is provided by the coactivation of progesterone, glucocorticoid and oestrogen receptors [13]. Besides the involvement of PRMT6 in epigenetic and transcription, arginine methylation by PRMT6 was shown to have a negative impact on the activities of HIV-1 Tat, Rev and nucleocapsid proteins, thus potentially affecting HIV replication [14?7]. In addition, PRMT6 was demonstrated to specifically methylate DNA polymerase ?resulting in a strong stimulation of DNA polymerase activity by enhancing DNA binding and processivity, thus involving PRMT6 in base excision repair (BER) [18]. Very recently, PRMT6 was found to be involved in the control of cell cycle progression repressing key cell-cycle regulators, i.e. p21 (CDKN1a), p27 (CDKN1B), and p16 (CDKN2A) [19?1].The Protein-Protein Molecular Network of PRMTFor both p21 and p27, repression is concomitant with the presence of PRMT6-dependent H3R2 methylation at the promoter level [19,20]. The same mechanism of repression has been demonstrated towards p53.NowledgmentsWe thank Marc Loup for technical assistance, Clothilde Roux and Olivier Boulat for measurement of metabolites in culture medium and Andrea Superti-Furga for critical discussion on experimental strategy and result interpretation.Brain Cell Damage in Glutaric Aciduria Type IAuthor ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: DB OB. Performed the experiments: PJ OB PZ HH DB. Analyzed the data: PJ OB PZ DB.Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH OB LB DB. Wrote the paper: DB OB PZ LB.
Protein arginine methylation is a post-translational modification (PTM) that has been implicated in a large variety of important cellular functions such as signalling, DNA repair, RNA maturation and nucleocytoplasmic transport, protein protection, ribosomal assembly, and regulation of gene expression [1]. In mammalian cells arginine methylation is performed by a sequence-related family of protein arginine methyl transferases termed PRMTs. Given that this family of enzymes plays an integral role in many cellular processes, it is unsurprising that their dysregulation is involved in several human diseases [1?]. Currently, nine different human 25331948 PRMTs are known (PRMT1-9). PRMTs share a set of conserved sequence motifs and a THW (threonine-histidinetryptophan) loop, but differ in the presence of additional protein domains, cellular localization, and tissue expression. There does not appear to be major redundancy between these enzymes since mouse knockouts display generally clear and dramatic phenotypes [1]. PRMT6 is a predominantly nuclear enzyme characterized by substrates specificity and by automethylation [5]. In particular, PRMT6 is the major PRMT responsible for histone H3R2 methylation and it has a clear role in antagonizing the MixedLineage Leukaemia (MLL)-complex-dependent methylation of theLys-4 residue [6?]. Methylation of H2AR29 is specifically enriched at genes repressed by PRMT6, implicating also this modification in transcriptional repression [9]. In addition PRMT6 binds and methylates the architectural transcription factor HMGA1 [10,11]. These evidences underline an important function for this enzyme in the context of chromatin structure organization and epigenetic regulation. PRMT6 has shown to directly impact transcription, in fact thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) was identified as a transcriptional repression target of PRMT6 by directly regulating the TSP-1 promoter activity [12]. Further involvement of PRMT6 in regulation of gene expression is provided by the coactivation of progesterone, glucocorticoid and oestrogen receptors [13]. Besides the involvement of PRMT6 in epigenetic and transcription, arginine methylation by PRMT6 was shown to have a negative impact on the activities of HIV-1 Tat, Rev and nucleocapsid proteins, thus potentially affecting HIV replication [14?7]. In addition, PRMT6 was demonstrated to specifically methylate DNA polymerase ?resulting in a strong stimulation of DNA polymerase activity by enhancing DNA binding and processivity, thus involving PRMT6 in base excision repair (BER) [18]. Very recently, PRMT6 was found to be involved in the control of cell cycle progression repressing key cell-cycle regulators, i.e. p21 (CDKN1a), p27 (CDKN1B), and p16 (CDKN2A) [19?1].The Protein-Protein Molecular Network of PRMTFor both p21 and p27, repression is concomitant with the presence of PRMT6-dependent H3R2 methylation at the promoter level [19,20]. The same mechanism of repression has been demonstrated towards p53.