RNF20 Links Histone H2B Ubiquitylation with Inflammation and Inflammation-Associated Cancer

Ohad Tarcic; Ioannis S. Pateras; Tomer Cooks; Efrat Shema; Julia Kanterman; Hadas Ashkenazi; Hana Boocholez; Ayala Hubert; Ron Rotkopf; Michal Baniyash; Eli Pikarsky; Vassilis G. Gorgoulis; Moshe Oren

doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.01.020

RNF20 Links Histone H2B Ubiquitylation with Inflammation and Inflammation-Associated Cancer

Ohad Tarcic, Ioannis S. Pateras, Tomer Cooks, Efrat Shema, Julia Kanterman, Hadas Ashkenazi, Hana Boocholez, Ayala Hubert, Ron Rotkopf, Michal Baniyash, Eli Pikarsky, Vassilis G. Gorgoulis, Moshe Oren

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Factors linking inflammation and cancer are of great interest. We now report that the chromatin-targeting E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF20/RNF40, driving histone H2B monoubiquitylation (H2Bub1), modulates inflammation and inflammation-associated cancer in mice and humans. Downregulation of RNF20 and H2Bub1 favors recruitment of p65-containing nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) dimers over repressive p50 homodimers and decreases the heterochromatin mark H3K9me3 on a subset of NF-κB target genes to augment their transcription. Concordantly, RNF20^+/- mice are predisposed to acute and chronic colonic inflammation and inflammation-associated colorectal cancer, with excessive myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) that may quench antitumoral T cell activity. Notably, colons of human ulcerative colitis patients, as well as colorectal tumors, reveal downregulation of RNF20/RNF40 and H2Bub1 in both epithelium and stroma, supporting the clinical relevance of our tissue culture and mouse model findings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1462-1476
Number of pages	15
Journal	Cell Reports
Volume	14
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.01.020
State	Published - 16 Feb 2016
Externally published	Yes

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