Jabeena, C.A. and Gayathri, Govindaraju and Devadathan Valiyamangalath, Sethumadhavan and Abdul, Jaleel and Dhakshmi, Sasankan and Arumugam, Rajavelu (2021) Dynamic association of the H3K64 trimethylation mark with genes encoding exported proteins in Plasmodium falciparum. J. Biol. Chem , 296 (5). ISSN 0021-9258

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Abstract

Epigenetic modifications have emerged as critical regulators of virulence genes and stage-specific gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum. However, the specific roles of histone core epigenetic modifications in regulating the stage-specific gene expression are not well understood. In this study, we report an unconventional trimethylation at lysine 64 on histone 3 (H3K64me3) and characterize its functional relevance in P. falciparum. We show that PfSET4 and PfSET5 proteins of P. falciparum methylate H3K64 and that they prefer the nucleosome as a substrate over free histone 3 proteins. Structural analysis of PfSET5 revealed that it interacts with the nucleosome as a dimer. The H3K64me3 mark is dynamic, being enriched in the ring and trophozoite stages and drastically reduced in the schizont stages. Stage-specific global chromatin immunoprecipitation –sequencing analysis of the H3K64me3 mark revealed the selective enrichment of this methyl mark on the genes of exported family proteins in the ring and trophozoite stages and a significant reduction of the same in the schizont stages. Collectively, our data identify a novel epigenetic mark that is associated with the subset of genes encoding for exported proteins, which may regulate their expression in different stages of P. falciparum.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Epigenetics malaria histone methylation exported family proteins nucleosome
Subjects:	Pathogen Biology
Depositing User:	Central Library RGCB
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2021 09:56
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2021 09:56
URI:	http://rgcb.sciencecentral.in/id/eprint/1061

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