Transcriptional regulation of BRCA1 expression by a metabolic switch
Open Access
- 21 November 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
- Vol. 17 (12), 1406-1413
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.1941
Abstract
Alterations in BRCA1 transcription can contribute to sporadic forms of breast cancer. Now the dynamics between transcriptional coactivators and co-repressors at the BRCA1 promoter reveal a central role for the metabolic sensor CtBP in the response to estrogen or cellular metabolic status Though the linkages between germline mutations of BRCA1 and hereditary breast cancer are well known, recent evidence suggests that altered BRCA1 transcription may also contribute to sporadic forms of breast cancer. Here we show that BRCA1 expression is controlled by a dynamic equilibrium between transcriptional coactivators and co-repressors that govern histone acetylation and DNA accessibility at the BRCA1 promoter. Eviction of the transcriptional co-repressor and metabolic sensor, C terminal–binding protein (CtBP), has a central role in this regulation. Loss of CtBP from the BRCA1 promoter through estrogen induction, depletion by RNA interference or increased NAD+/NADH ratio leads to HDAC1 dismissal, elevated histone acetylation and increased BRCA1 transcription. The active control of chromatin marks, DNA accessibility and gene expression at the BRCA1 promoter by this 'metabolic switch' provides an important molecular link between caloric intake and tumor suppressor expression in mammary cells.Keywords
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