A novel histone deacetylase pathway regulates mitosis by modulating Aurora B kinase activity

Yun Li; Gary D. Kao; Benjamin A. Garcia; Jeffrey Shabanowitz; Donald F. Hunt; Jun Qin; Caroline Phelan; Mitchell A. Lazar

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A novel histone deacetylase pathway regulates mitosis by modulating Aurora B kinase activity

Yun Li, Gary D. Kao, Benjamin A. Garcia, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Donald F. Hunt, Jun Qin, Caroline Phelan, Mitchell A. Lazar

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Abstract

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors perturb the cell cycle and have great potential as anti-cancer agents, but their mechanism of action is not well established. HDACs classically function as repressors of gene expression, tethered to sequence-specific transcription factors. Here we report that HDAC3 is a critical, transcription-independent regulator of mitosis. HDAC3 forms a complex with A-Kinase-Anchoring Proteins AKAP95 and HA95, which are targeted to mitotic chromosomes. Deacetylation of H3 in mitosis requires AKAP95/HA95 and HDAC3 and provides a hypoacetylated H3 tail that is the preferred substrate for Aurora B kinase. Phosphorylation of H3S10 by Aurora B leads to dissociation of HP1 proteins from methylated H3K9 residues on mitotic heterochromatin. This transcription-independent pathway, involving interdependent changes in histone modification and protein association, is required for normal progression through mitosis and is an unexpected target of HDAC inhibitors, a class of drugs currently in clinical trials for treating cancer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2566-2579
Number of pages	14
Journal	Genes and Development
Volume	20
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.1455006
State	Published - Sep 15 2006

Keywords

AKAP
Aurora
HDAC
Histone code
Mitosis

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