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Title: Inhibition of lysine-specific demethylase 1 by polyamine analogues results in reexpression of aberrantly silenced genes.

Authors: Huang, Yi; Greene, Eriko; Murray Stewart, Tracy; Goodwin, Andrew C; Baylin, Stephen B; Woster, Patrick M; Casero Jr, Robert A

Published In Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, (2007 May 8)

Abstract: Epigenetic chromatin modification is a major regulator of eukaryotic gene expression, and aberrant epigenetic silencing of gene expression contributes to tumorigenesis. Histone modifications include acetylation, phosphorylation, and methylation, resulting in a combination of histone marks known collectively as the histone code. The chromatin marks at a given promoter determine, in part, whether specific promoters are in an open/active conformation or closed/repressed conformation. Dimethyl-lysine 4 histone H3 (H3K4me2) is a transcription-activating chromatin mark at gene promoters, and demethylation of this mark by the lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), a homologue of polyamine oxidases, may broadly repress gene expression. We now report that novel biguanide and bisguanidine polyamine analogues are potent inhibitors of LSD1. These analogues inhibit LSD1 in human colon carcinoma cells and affect a reexpression of multiple, aberrantly silenced genes important in the development of colon cancer, including members of the secreted frizzle-related proteins (SFRPs) and the GATA family of transcription factors. Furthermore, we demonstrate by chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis that the reexpression is concurrent with increased H3K4me2 and acetyl-H3K9 marks, decreased H3K9me1 and H3K9me2 repressive marks. We thus define important new agents for reversing aberrant repression of gene transcription.

PubMed ID: 17463086 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Biguanides/pharmacology; Cell Line, Tumor; Colorectal Neoplasms/drug therapy; Colorectal Neoplasms/genetics; DNA Methylation; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology*; GATA4 Transcription Factor/genetics; Gene Silencing/drug effects*; Genes, Tumor Suppressor; Histone Demethylases; Humans; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics; Membrane Proteins/genetics; Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating/antagonists & inhibitors*; Polyamines/pharmacology*; Promoter Regions, Genetic

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