Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Hepcidin is regulated by promoter-associated histone acetylation and HDAC3

  • Sant-Rayn Pasricha,
  • Pei Jin Lim,
  • Tiago L. Duarte,
  • Carla Casu,
  • Dorenda Oosterhuis,
  • Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka,
  • Maria Suciu,
  • Ana Rita Da Silva,
  • Kinda Al-Hourani,
  • João Arezes,
  • Kirsty McHugh,
  • Sarah Gooding,
  • Joe N. Frost,
  • Katherine Wray,
  • Ana Santos,
  • Graça Porto,
  • Emmanouela Repapi,
  • Nicki Gray,
  • Simon J. Draper,
  • Neil Ashley,
  • Elizabeth Soilleux,
  • Peter Olinga,
  • Martina U. Muckenthaler,
  • Jim R. Hughes,
  • Stefano Rivella,
  • Thomas A. Milne,
  • Andrew E. Armitage,
  • Hal Drakesmith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00500-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Hepcidin controls systemic iron levels by inhibiting intestinal iron absorption and iron recycling. Here, Pasricha et al. demonstrate that the hepcidin-chromatin locus displays HDAC3-mediated reversible epigenetic modifications during both erythropoiesis and iron deficiency.