Regulation of Histone Acetylation in the Nucleus by Sphingosine-1-Phosphate

By N. Hait, J. Allegood, Michael Maceyka, G. Strub, K. Harikumar, S. Singh, Cheng Luo, R. Marmorstein, T. Kordula, S. Milstien and 1 more. Science, 2009

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Epigenetic Signals The lipid sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a signaling molecule that binds to receptors on the cell surface to initiate biochemical changes that control a range of biological processes from growth and survival to immune reactions. Hait et al. (p. 1254) report that S1P can also function by direct binding to the nuclear enzymes, histone deacetylases (HDACs) 1 and 2. The enzyme that generates S1P, sphingosine kinase 2 (ShpK2) is present in the nucleus in complexes with HDAC1 and HDAC2. Generation of S1P and its binding to HDACs inhibited deacetylation of histone. Such histone modification is an epigenetic mechanism that controls gene transcription. Thus, generation of S1P in the nucleus appears to be a signaling mechanism by which cells can control gene expression in response to various stimuli. A phospholipid that binds to nuclear enzymes modifies gene transcription in response to external stimuli. The pleiotropic lipid mediator sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) can act intracellularly independently of its cell surface receptors through unknown mechanisms. Sphingosine kinase 2 (SphK2), one of the isoenzymes that generates S1P, was associated with histone H3 and produced S1P that regulated histone acetylation. S1P specifically bound to the histone deacetylases HDAC1 and HDAC2 and inhibited their enzymatic activity, preventing the removal of acetyl groups from lysine residues within histone tails. SphK2 associated with HDAC1 and HDAC2 in repressor complexes and was selectively enriched at the promoters of the genes encoding the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 or the transcriptional regulator c-fos, where it enhanced local histone H3 acetylation and transcription. Thus, HDACs are direct intracellular targets of S1P and link nuclear S1P to epigenetic regulation of gene expression.

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Bile Acid Signaling in Metabolic Disease and Drug Therapy (2014, background): “Interestingly, it was reported that SphK2 is associated with histone deacetylase histone deacetylase (HDAC)1/2, and S1P inhibits HDAC1/2 activity and stimulates histone acetylation and transcription of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 and cFos (Hait et al., 2009).”
Acetyl coenzyme A: a central metabolite and second messenger. (2015, background): “Along similar lines, L-carnitine and sphingosine-1-phosphate favor histone acetylation by operating as HDAC1 and HDAC2 inhibitors (Hait et al., 2009; Huang et al., 2012).”