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Coactivator-Associated Arginine Methyltransferase-1 Enhances Nuclear Factor-B-Mediated Gene Transcription through Methylation of Histone H3 at Arginine 17

Gonda Diabetes Center, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Rama Natarajan, Gonda Diabetes Center, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, California 91010. E-mail: RNatarajan{at}coh.org.

Coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase-1 (CARM1) is known to enhance transcriptional activation by nuclear receptors through interactions with the coactivators p160 and cAMP response element binding protein-binding protein (CBP) and methylation of histone H3 at arginine 17 (H3-R17). Here, we show that CARM1 can act as a coactivator for the transcription factor nuclear factor-B (NF-B) and enhance NF-B activity in a CBP (p300)-dependent manner. This enhancement in 293T cells was abolished by cotransfection with a specific short hairpin RNA targeted to knockdown CARM1. Chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated CARM1 recruitment in vivo to the promoters of NF-B p65-regulated genes along with CBP and steroid receptor coactivator-1. This was accompanied by an increase in histone H3-R17 methylation as well as H3-K9 and H3-K14 acetylation, and a decrease in H3-citrulline. Immunoprecipitation with anti-p65 antibody revealed that CARM1 physically interacts with NF-B p65. Furthermore, we demonstrated the physiological significance by observing that similar events occurred when THP-1 monocytic cells were stimulated with TNF- or with S100b, a ligand for the receptor of advanced glycation end products, both of which are associated with diabetic complications and also known inducers of NF-B and inflammatory genes in monocytes. These results demonstrate that CARM1 participates in NF-B-mediated transcription through H3-R17 methylation and support a nonnuclear receptor-associated function for CARM1. They also demonstrate for the first time that CARM1 occupancy, histone H3-R17 methylation, and citrullination are regulated at the promoters of inflammatory genes in monocytes, thereby suggesting a novel role for histone arginine modifications in inflammatory diseases.

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