The Transition to Endoreduplication in Trophoblast Giant Cells Is Regulated by the mSNA Zinc Finger Transcription Factor

Nakayama, Hiroki; Scott, Ian C.; Cross, James C.

doi:10.1006/dbio.1998.8914

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“…4G, GST⌬Nt), indicating that the N-terminal half of Snail is required for the interactions. Indeed, the N-terminal SNAG domain of Snail, previously involved in the repression function (5,34), is required to establish the interaction with HDAC1/2 and the corepressor mSin3A, since its deletion is sufficient to eliminate interactions with the three proteins (Fig. 4G, GST-⌬SNAG).…”

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Snail Mediates E-Cadherin Repression by the Recruitment of the Sin3A/Histone Deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)/HDAC2 Complex

Peinado

Ballestar

Esteller

et al. 2004

Molecular and Cellular Biology

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The transcription factor Snail has been described as a direct repressor of E-cadherin expression during development and carcinogenesis; however, the specific mechanisms involved in this process remain largely unknown. Here we show that mammalian Snail requires histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity to repress E-cadherin promoter and that treatment with trichostatin A (TSA) is sufficient to block the repressor effect of Snail. Moreover, overexpression of Snail is correlated with deacetylation of histones H3 and H4 at the E-cadherin promoter, and TSA treatment in Snail-expressing cells reverses the acetylation status of histones. Additionally, we demonstrate that Snail interacts in vivo with the E-cadherin promoter and recruits HDAC activity. Most importantly, we demonstrate an interaction between Snail, histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) and HDAC2, and the corepressor mSin3A. This interaction is dependent on the SNAG domain of Snail, indicating that the Snail transcription factor mediates the repression by recruitment of chromatin-modifying activities, forming a multimolecular complex to repress E-cadherin expression. Our results establish a direct causal relationship between Snail-dependent repression of E-cadherin and the modification of chromatin at its promoter.

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Snail Mediates E-Cadherin Repression by the Recruitment of the Sin3A/Histone Deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)/HDAC2 Complex

Peinado

Ballestar

Esteller

et al. 2004

Molecular and Cellular Biology

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“…While the fingers function as sequence-specific DNA-binding motifs, the SNAG domain is the effector domain that enhances repressor activity in mammalian cells (Grimes et al, 1996;Nakayama et al, 1998). It has been shown that Snail represses transcription initiation by binding to the E-box cis-elements and recruiting chromatin remodeling mSin3A and histone deacetylases containing repressor complexes.…”

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Snail is a repressor of RKIP transcription in metastatic prostate cancer cells

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Diminished expression of the metastasis suppressor protein RKIP was previously reported in a number of cancers. The underlying mechanism remains unknown. Here, we show that the expression of RKIP negatively correlates with that of Snail zinc-transcriptional repressor, a key modulator of normal and neoplastic epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) program. With a combination of loss-of-function and gain-of-function approaches, we showed that Snail repressed the expression of RKIP in metastatic prostate cancer cell lines. The effect of Snail on RKIP was on the level of transcriptional initiation and mediated by a proximal E-box on the RKIP promoter. (Chatterjee et al., 2004;Park et al., 2005). Consistent with its demonstrated inhibitory effect on Raf and NF-kB signaling, we and others have shown that the expression levels of RKIP are downregulated in a number of tumors, including highly metastatic prostate, breast and colon cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, melanomas and insulinomas (Fu et al., 2003;Chatterjee et al., 2004;Schuierer et al., 2004Schuierer et al., , 2006Zhang et al., 2004;Hegan et al., 2005;Al-Mulla et al., 2006;Lee et al., 2006). The importance of RKIP in metastases was highlighted by the finding that restoration of RKIP expression inhibits prostate cancer metastasis in a murine model (Fu et al., 2003(Fu et al., , 2005. More recent studies have shown that RKIP is also a good prognostic marker of the pathogenesis of human prostate cancer (Fu et al., 2005) and a prognostic indicator for overall survival and disease-free survival in colorectal cancer (Al-Mulla et al., 2006). Collectively, these studies suggest that RKIP is a novel cancer metastasis suppressor and an effector of signal transduction pathways leading to apoptosis. In spite of the abundance of experimental evidence on the deleterious consequences of reduced RKIP expression in tumors, the mechanisms responsible for the downregulation of RKIP in cancer are not completely understood.To set up a system to study the transcription regulation of RKIP, we examined RKIP expression levels in cancer cell lines with different metastatic capacity. In accordance with clinical tumor studies, we observed that expression levels of RKIP proteins progressively decreased in breast and prostate cancer cell lines of increasing metastatic potential. The expression of RKIP is low in invasive and metastatic breast (MB231, MB435 and 578T) and prostate (DU145 and PC3) cell lines and high in noninvasive cell lines like MCF7, BT20 and LNCaP (Figure 1a). Notably, RKIP protein levels correlated well with those of the intercellular adhesion protein E-cadherin (E-cad). E-cad is a well-documented tumor metastasis suppressor protein that is regulated by the Snail and closely related Slug transcription factors (Peinado et al., 2007). Quantitation of RKIP transcript levels in the different cancer cell lines by qRT-PCR demonstrated that they correlated with the levels of the protein, (Figure 1b), suggesting that RKIP expression is downregulated at the RNA level, via changes...

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“…This chimeric protein can work as a competitor for endogenous Snail-related repressors and can counteract their suppressive activity (23). Mutation in the FIG.…”

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Mouse Snail Family Transcription Repressors Regulate Chondrocyte, Extracellular Matrix, Type II Collagen, and Aggrecan

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Fujimori

Savagner

et al. 2003

Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Snail family genes are conserved among species during evolution and encode transcription factors expressed at different stages of development in different tissues. These genes are involved in a broad spectrum of biological functions: cell differentiation, cell motility, cell cycle regulation, and apoptosis. However, little is known about the target genes involved in these functions. Here we show that mouse Snail family members, Snail (Sna) and Slug (Slugh), are involved in chondrocyte differentiation by controlling the expression of type II collagen (Col2a1) and aggrecan. In situ hybridization analysis of developing mouse limb demonstrated that Snail and Slug mRNAs were highly expressed in hypertrophic chondrocytes. Inversely, the expression of collagen type II mRNA disappeared during hypertrophic differentiation. Snail and Slug mRNA expression was down-regulated during differentiation of the mouse chondrogenic cell line ATDC5 and overexpression of exogenous Snail or Slug in ATDC5 cells inhibited expression of collagen type II and aggrecan mRNA. Reporter analysis revealed Snail and Slug suppressed the promoter activity of Col2a1, and the E-boxes in the promoter region were the responsible element. Gel shift assay demonstrated the binding of Snail to the E-box. Because type II collagen and aggrecan are major functional components of extracellular matrix in cartilage, these results suggest an important role for Snailrelated transcription repressors during chondrocyte differentiation.During skeletal development, condensed mesenchymal cells give rise to chondrocytes and form cartilage primordia, which serve as templates for endochondral bone formation. In cartilage primordia, chondrocytes undergo further differentiation, starting as proliferating chondrocytes, becoming prehypertrophic chondrocytes and ending as hypertrophic chondrocytes. Chondrocytes secrete abundant extracellular matrix (ECM) 1 into the extracellular space, and the composition of ECM changes during the sequential differentiation steps. Type II collagen and aggrecan are major components of the cartilage extracellular matrix produced by proliferating and prehypertrophic chondrocytes, and type X collagen is a major collagen type produced by hypertrophic chondrocytes. The differentiation into hypertrophic chondrocytes is accompanied with changes in ECM; switching of collagen types from type II to type X and the disappearance of aggrecan and link protein (1, 2

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The Transition to Endoreduplication in Trophoblast Giant Cells Is Regulated by the mSNA Zinc Finger Transcription Factor

Cited by 103 publications

References 36 publications

Snail Mediates E-Cadherin Repression by the Recruitment of the Sin3A/Histone Deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)/HDAC2 Complex

Snail Mediates E-Cadherin Repression by the Recruitment of the Sin3A/Histone Deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)/HDAC2 Complex

Snail is a repressor of RKIP transcription in metastatic prostate cancer cells

Mouse Snail Family Transcription Repressors Regulate Chondrocyte, Extracellular Matrix, Type II Collagen, and Aggrecan

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