Abstract
Histone modulations have been implicated in various cellular and developmental processes where in Drosophila Mof is involved in acetylation of H4K16. Reduction in the size of larval imaginal discs is observed in the null mutants of mof with increased apoptosis. Deficiency involving Hid, Reaper and Grim [H99] alleviated mof RNAi induced apoptosis in the eye discs. mof RNAi induced apoptosis leads to activation of caspases which is suppressed by over expression of caspase inhibitors like P35 and Diap1clearly depicting the role of caspases in programmed cell death. Also apoptosis induced by knockdown of mof is rescued by JNK mutants of bsk and tak1 indicating the role of JNK in mof RNAi induced apoptosis. The adult eye ablation phenotype produced by ectopic expression of Hid, Rpr and Grim, was restored by over expression of Mof. Accumulation of Mof at the Diap1 promoter 800 bp upstream of the transcription start site in wild type larvae is significantly higher (up to twofolds) compared to mof 1 mutants. This enrichment coincides with modification of histone H4K16Ac indicating an induction of direct transcriptional up regulation of Diap1 by Mof. Based on these results we propose that apoptosis triggered by mof RNAi proceeds through a caspase-dependent and JNK mediated pathway.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Avvakumov N, Cote J (2007) The MYST family of histone acetyltransferases and their intimate links to cancer. Oncogene 26:5395–5407
Rea S, Xouri G, Akhtar A (2007) Males absent on the first (MOF): from flies to humans. Oncogene 26:5385–5394
Thomas T, Voss AK (2007) The diverse biological roles of MYST histone acetyltransferase family proteins. Cell Cycle 6:696–704
Yang XJ (2004) The diverse superfamily of lysine acetyltransferases and their roles in leukemia and other diseases. Nucleic Acids Res 32:959–976
Hilfiker A, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Pannuti A, Lucchesi JC (1997) mof, a putative acetyl transferase gene related to the Tip60 and MOZ human genes and to the SAS genes of yeast, is required for dosage compensation in Drosophila. EMBO J 16:2054–2060
Neal KC, Pannuti A, Smith ER, Lucchesi JC (2000) A new human member of the MYST family of histone acetyl transferases with high sequence similarity to Drosophila MOF. Biochim Biophys Acta 1490:170–174
Gupta A, Sharma GG, Young CS, Agarwal M, Smith ER, Paull TT, Lucchesi JC, Khanna KK, Ludwig T, Pandita TK (2005) Involvement of human MOF in ATM function. Mol Cell Biol 25:5292–5305
Sharma GG, So S, Gupta A, Kumar R, Cayrou C, Avvakumov N, Bhadra U, Pandita RK, Porteus MH, Chen DJ, Cote Pandita TK (2010) MOF and histone H4 acetylation at lysine 16 are critical for DNA damage response and double-strand break repair. Mol Cell Biol 30:3582–3595
Lucchesi JC, Kelly WG, Panning B (2005) Chromatin remodeling in dosage compensation. Annu Rev Genet 39:615–651
Mendjan S, Akhtar A (2007) The right dose for every sex. Chromosoma 116:95–106
Rea S, Akhtar A (2006) MSL proteins and the regulation of gene expression. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 310:117–140
Straub T, Becker PB (2007) Dosage compensation: the beginning and end of generalization. Nat Rev Genet 8:47–57
Akhtar A, Zink D, Becker PB (2000) Chromodomains are protein-RNA interaction modules. Nature 407:405–409
Smith ER, Pannuti A, Gu W, Steurnagel A, Cook RG, Allis CD, Lucchesi JC (2000) The drosophila MSL complex acetylates histone H4 at lysine 16, a chromatin modification linked to dosage compensation. Mol Cell Biol 20:312–318
Smith ER, Cayrou C, Huang R, Lane WS, Cote J, Lucchesi JC (2005) A human protein complex homologous to the Drosophila MSL complex is responsible for the majority of histone H4 acetylation at lysine 16. Mol Cell Biol 25:9175–9188
Taipale M, Rea S, Richter K, Vilar A, Lichter P, Imhof A, Akhtar A (2005) hMOF histone acetyltransferase is required for histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation in mammalian cells. Mol Cell Biol 25:6798–6810
Tang Y, Luo J, Zhang W, Gu W (2006) Tip60-dependent acetylation of p53 modulates the decision between cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis. Mol Cell 24:827–839
Bhadra MP, Horikoshi N, Pushpavallipvalli SN, Sarkar A, Bag I, Krishnan A, Lucchesi JC, Kumar R, Yang Q, Pandita RK, Singh M, Bhadra U, Eissenberg JC, Pandita TK (2012) The role of MOF in the ionizing radiation response is conserved in Drosophila melanogaster. Chromosoma 121:79–90
Jacobson MD, Weil M, Raff MC (1997) Programmed cell death in animal development. Cell 88:347–354
Hengartner MO (2000) The biochemistry of apoptosis. Nature 407:770–776
Danial NN, Korsmeyer SJ (2004) Cell death: critical control points. Cell 116(2):205–219
Salvesen GS, Abrams JM (2004) Caspase activation: stepping on the gas or releasing the brakes? Lessons from humans and flies. Oncogene 23(16):2774–2784
Sonnenfeld MJ, Jacobs JR (1995) Apoptosis of the midline glia during Drosophila embryogenesis—a correlation with axon contact. Development 121(2):569–578
Zhou L, Hashimi H, Schwartz LM, Nambu JR (1995) Programmed cell-death in the Drosophila central-nervous-system midline. Curr Biol 5(7):784–790
Jiang CG, Baehrecke EH, Thummel CS (1997) Steroid regulated programmed cell death during Drosophila metamorphosis. Development 124(22):4673–4683
Baehrecke EH (2003) Autophagic programmed cell death in Drosophila. Cell Death Differ 10(9):940–945
Goyal L, McCall K, Agapite J, Hartwieg E, Steller H (2000) Induction of apoptosis by Drosophila reaper, hid and grim through inhibition of IAP function. EMBO J 19:589–597
Clem RJ, Miller LK (1994) Control of programmed cell death by the baculovirus genes p35 and iap. Mol Cell Biol 14:5212–5222
Grether ME, Abrams JM, Agapite J, White K, Steller H (1995) The head involution defective gene of Drosophila melanogaster functions in programmed cell death. Genes Dev 9:1694–1708
White K, Grether ME, Abrams JM, Young L, Farrell K, Steller H (1994) Genetic control of programmed cell death in Drosophila. Science 264:677–683
Chen P, Nordstrom W, Gish B, Abrams JM (1996) Grim, a novel cell death gene in Drosophila. Genes Dev 10:1773–1782
Bergmann A, Agapite J, McCall K, Steller H (1998) The Drosophila gene hid is a direct molecular target of Ras-dependent survival signaling. Cell 95:331–341
Wang SL, Hawkins CJ, Yoo SJ, Muller HA, Hay BA (1999) The Drosophila caspase inhibitor DIAP1 is essential for cell survival and is negatively regulated by HID. Cell 98:453–463
Huh JR, Foe I, Muro I, Chen CH, Seol JH, Yoo SJ, Guo M, Park JM, Hay BA (2007) The Drosophila inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) DIAP2 is dispensable for cell survival, required for the innate immune response to gram-negative bacterial infection, and can be negatively regulated by the reaper/hid/grim family of IAP-binding apoptosis inducers. J Biol Chem 282:2056–2068
Sogame N, Kim M, Abrams JM (2003) Drosophila p53 preserves genomic stability by regulating cell death. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:4696–4701
Fan Y, Lee TV, Xu D, Chen Z, Lamblin AF, Steller H, Bergmann A (2010) Dual roles of Drosophila p53 in cell death and cell differentiation. Cell Death Differ 17:912–921
Zilfou JT, Lowe SW (2009) Tumor suppressive functions of p53. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 1:a001883
Brodsky MH, Sekelsky JJ, Tsang G, Hawley RS, Rubi GM (2000) mus304 encodes a novel DNA damage checkpoint protein required during Drosophila development. Genes Dev 14:666–678
Schaeffer HJ, Weber MJ (1999) Mitogen-activated protein kinases: specific messages from ubiquitous messengers. Mol Cell Biol 19:2435–2444
Davis RJ (2000) Signal transduction by the JNK group of MAP kinases. Cell 103:239–252
Weston CR, Davis RJ (2002) The JNK signal transduction pathway. Curr Opin Genet Dev 12:14–21
Kuranaga E, Kanuka H, Igaki T, Sawamoto K, Ichijo H, Okano H, Miura M (2002) Reaper-mediated inhibition of DIAP1-induced DTRAF1 degradation results in activation of JNK in Drosophila. Nat Cell Biol 4:705–710
Pushpavalli SN, Sarkar A, Bag I, Hunt CR, Ramaiah MJ, Pandita TK, Bhadra U, Pal-Bhadra M (2014) Argonaute-1 functions as a mitotic regulator by controlling Cyclin B during Drosophila early embryogenesis. FASEB J 28:655–666
Brand AH, Perrimon N (1993) Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes. Development 118:401–415
Kohler G, Milstein C (1975) Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity. Nature 256:495–497
Cavalli G, Paro R (1999) Epigenetic inheritance of active chromatin after removal of the main transactivator. Science 286:955–958
Livak KJ, Schmittgen TD (2001) Analysis of relative gene expression data using real-time quantitative PCR and the 2(−Delta Delta C(T)) Method. Methods 25:402–408
Vucic D, Kaiser WJ, Harvey AJ, Miller LK (1997) Inhibition of reaper-induced apoptosis by interaction with inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:10183–10188
McCarthy JV, Dixit VM (1998) Apoptosis induced by Drosophila reaper and grim in a human system. Attenuation by inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (cIAPs). J Biol Chem 273:24009–24015
Bump NJ, Hackett M, Hugunin M, Seshagiri S, Brady K, Chen P, Ferenz C, Franklin S, Ghayur T, Li P et al (1995) Inhibition of ICE family proteases by baculovirus antiapoptotic protein p35. Science 269:1885–1888
Hay BA, Wassarman DA, Rubin GM (1995) Drosophila homologs of baculovirus inhibitor of apoptosis proteins function to block cell death. Cell 83:1253–1262
Ryoo HD, Bergmann A, Gonen H, Ciechanover A, Steller H (2002) Regulation of Drosophila IAP1 degradation and apoptosis by reaper and ubcD1. Nat Cell Biol 4:432–438
Rodriguez A, Griffiths-Jones S, Ashurst JL, Bradley A (2004) Identification of mammalian microRNA host genes and transcription units. Genome Res 14:1902–1910
Lisi S, Mazzon I, White K (2000) Diverse domains of THREAD/DIAP1 are required to inhibit apoptosis induced by REAPER and HID in Drosophila. Genetics 154:669–678
LaCasse EC, Baird S, Korneluk RG, MacKenzie AE (1998) The inhibitors of apoptosis (IAPs) and their emerging role in cancer. Oncogene 17:3247–3259
Uren AG, Coulson EJ, Vau DL (1998) Conservation of baculovirus inhibitor of apoptosis repeat proteins (BIRPs) in viruses, nematodes, vertebrates and yeasts. Trends Biochem Sci 23:159–162
Glavic A, Molnar C, Cotoras D, Celis JF (2009) Drosophila Axud1 is involved in the control of proliferation and displays pro-apoptotic activity. Mech Dev 126:184–197
Igaki T, Kanda H, Yamamoto-Goto Y, Kanuka H, Kuranaga E, Aigaki T, Miura M (2002) Eiger, a TNF superfamily ligand that triggers the Drosophila JNK pathway. EMBO J 21:3009–3018
Wu C, Chen C, Dai J, Zhang F, Chen Y, Li W, Pastor-Pareja JC, Xue L (2015) Toll pathway modulates TNF-induced JNK-dependent cell death in Drosophila. Open Biol 5(7):140171. doi:10.1098/rsob.140171
Yang SA, Su MT (2011) Excessive Dpp signalling induces cardial apoptosis through dTAK1 and dJNK during late embryogenesis of Drosophila. J Biomed Sci 18:85. doi:10.1186/1423-0127-18-85
Ryoo HD, Gorenc T, Steller H (2004) Apoptotic cells can induce compensatory cellproliferation through the JNK and the Wingless signalling pathways. Dev Cell 7:491–501
Perez-Garijo A, Shlevkov E, Morata G (2009) The role of Dpp and Wg in compensatory proliferation and in the formation of hyperplastic overgrowths caused by apoptotic cells in the Drosophila wing disc. Development 136:1169–1177
Bergantinos C, Corominas M, Serras F (2010) Cell death-induced regeneration in wing imaginal discs requires JNK signalling. Development 137:1169–1179
Takatsu Y, Nakamura M, Stapleton M, Danos MC, Matsumoto K, O’Connor MB, Shibuya H, Ueno N (2000) TAK1 participates in c-Jun N-terminal kinase signaling during Drosophila development. Mol Cell Biol 20(9):3015–3026
Gregory CD (2013) Death in the nervous system: JNK signaling in junk clearance. Cell Death Differ 20:1125–1127
Huh JR, Guo M, Hay BA (2004) Compensatory proliferation induced by cell death in the Drosophila wing disc requires activity of apical cell death caspase Dronc in a non-apoptotic role. Curr Biol 14:1262–1266
Wells BS, Yoshida E, Johnston A (2006) Compensatory proliferation in Drosophila imaginal discs requires Dronc-dependent p53 activity. Curr Biol 16:1606–1615
Kondo S, Senoo-Matsuda N, Hiromi Y, Miura M (2006) DRONC coordinates cell death and compensatory proliferation. Mol Cell Biol 26:7258–7268
Betz A, Ryoo HD, Steller H, Darnell JE Jr (2008) STAT92E is a positive regulator of Drosophila inhibitor of apoptosis 1 (DIAP/1) and protects against radiation-induced apoptosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:13805–13810
Conrad T, Akhtar A (2011) Dosage compensation in Drosophila melanogaster: epigenetic fine-tuning of chromosome-wide transcription. Nat Rev Genet 13:123–134
Gupta A, Guerin-Peyrou TG, Sharma GG, Park C, Agarwal M, Ganju RK, Pandita S, Choi K, Sukumar S, Pandita RK, Ludwig T, Pandita TK (2008) The mammalian ortholog of Drosophila MOF that acetylates histone H4 lysine 16 is essential for embryogenesis and oncogenesis. Mol Cell Biol 28:397–409
Zippo A, Serafini R, Rocchigiani M, Pennacchini S, Krepelova A, Oliviero S (2009) Histone crosstalk between H3S10ph and H4K16ac generates a histone code that mediates transcription elongation. Cell 138:1122–1136
Kind J, Vaquerizas JM, Gebhardt P, Gentzel M, Luscombe NM, Bertone P, Akhtar A (2008) Genome-wide analysis reveals MOF as a key regulator of dosage compensation and gene expression in Drosophila. Cell 133:813–828
Vernooy SY, Copeland J, Ghaboosi N, Griffin EE, Yoo SJ, Hay BA (2000) Cell death regulation in Drosophila: conservation of mechanism and unique insights. J Cell Biol 150:F69–F76
Shi Y (2001) A structural view of mitochondria-mediated apoptosis. Nat Struct Biol 8:394–401
Alnemri ES, Livingston DJ, Nicholson DW, Salvesen G, Thornberry NA, Wong WW, Yuan J (1996) Human ICE/CED-3 protease nomenclature. Cell 87:171
Ollmann M, Young LM, DiComo CJ, Karim F, Belvin M, Robertson S, Whittaker K, Demsky M, Fisher WW, Buchman A, Duyk G, Friedman L, Prives C, Kopczynski C (2000) Drosophila p53 is a structural and functional homolog of the tumor suppressor p53. Cell 101:91–101
Palaga T, Osborne B (2002) The 3D’s of apoptosis: death, degradation and DIAPs. Nat Cell Biol 4:E149–E151
Bergmann A, Yang AY, Srivastava M (2003) Regulators of IAP function: coming to grips with the grim reaper. Curr Opin Cell Biol 15:717–724
Wilson R, Goyal L, Ditzel M, Zachariou A, Baker DA, Agapite J, Steller H, Meier P (2002) The DIAP1 RING finger mediates ubiquitination of Dronc and is indispensable for regulating apoptosis. Nat Cell Biol 4:445–450
Chai J, Yan N, Huh JR, Wu JW, Li W, Hay BA, Shi Y (2003) Molecular mechanism of Reaper–Grim–Hid-mediated suppression of DIAP1-dependent Dronc ubiquitination. Nat Struct Biol 10:892–898
Acknowledgments
This work has been supported by Department of Biotechnology to MPB [GAP 0362] and UB. The authors thank Prof. John C. Lucchesi for fly stocks. AS, GKR thank UGC for their fellowship and IB thank CSIR for her postdoctoral fellowship. All the authors thank P. Devender for culturing and maintaining the Drosophila stocks. Our thanks to Hemalatha for help in formatting the work.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Sreerangam N. C. V. L. Pushpavalli, Arpita Sarkar and M. Janaki Ramaiah have contributed equally to this work.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Pushpavalli, S.N.C.V.L., Sarkar, A., Ramaiah, M.J. et al. Drosophila MOF regulates DIAP1 and induces apoptosis in a JNK dependent pathway. Apoptosis 21, 269–282 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10495-015-1206-1
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10495-015-1206-1