Subjects: Biology >> Biophysics >> Biochemistry & Molecular Biology submitted time 2016-05-12
Yu, Zhongsheng
Liu, Jiyong
Jiao, Renjie
Yu, Zhongsheng
Jiao, Renjie
Liu, Jiyong
Jiao, Renjie
Deng, Wu-Min
Abstract： More and more studies have shown chromatin remodelers and histone modifiers play essential roles in regulating developmental patterns by organizing specific chromosomal architecture to establish programmed transcriptional profiles, with implications that histone chaperones execute a coordinating role in these processes. Chromatin assembly factor-1 (CAF-1), an evolutionarily conserved three-subunit protein complex, was identified as a histone chaperone coupled with DNA replication and repair in cultured mammalian cells and yeasts. Interestingly, recent findings indicate CAF-1 may have important regulatory roles during development by interacting with specific transcription factors and epigenetic regulators. In this review, we focus on the essential roles of CAF-1 in regulating heterochromatin organization, asymmetric cell division, and specific signal transduction through epigenetic modulations of the chromatin. In the end, we aim at providing a current image of facets of CAF-1 as a histone chaperone to orchestrate cell proliferation and differentiation during multi-cellular organism development.
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Subjects: Biology >> Biophysics >> Biochemistry & Molecular Biology submitted time 2016-05-11
Yan, Yan
Wang, Hao
Chen, Hanqing
Lindstrom-Battle, Anya
Jiao, Renjie
Yan, Yan
Chen, Hanqing
Wang, Hao
Jiao, Renjie
Abstract： Body size is one of the features that distinguish one species from another in the biological world. Animals have developed mechanisms to control their body size during normal development. However, how animals cope with genetic alterations and/or environmental stresses to develop into normal-sized adults remain poorly understood. The ability of the animals to develop into a normal-sized adult after the challenges of genetic alterations and/or environmental stresses reveals a robustness of body size control. Here we show that the mutation of dGPAT4, a de novo synthase of lysophosphatidic acid, is a genetic alteration that triggers such a robust response of the animals to body size challenges in Drosophila. Loss of dGPAT4 leads to a severe delay of development, slow growth and resultant small-sized animals during the larval stages, but results in normal-sized adult flies. The robust body size adjustment of the dGPAT4 mutant is likely achieved by corresponding changes in ecdysone and insulin signaling, which is also manifested by compromised food intake. Thus, we propose that a strategy has been evolved by the animals to reach final body size when challenged by genetic alterations, which requires the coordinated ecdysone and insulin signaling.
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