Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Microbiota derived short chain fatty acids promote histone crotonylation in the colon through histone deacetylases

  • Rachel Fellows,
  • Jérémy Denizot,
  • Claudia Stellato,
  • Alessandro Cuomo,
  • Payal Jain,
  • Elena Stoyanova,
  • Szabina Balázsi,
  • Zoltán Hajnády,
  • Anke Liebert,
  • Juri Kazakevych,
  • Hector Blackburn,
  • Renan Oliveira Corrêa,
  • José Luís Fachi,
  • Fabio Takeo Sato,
  • Willian R. Ribeiro,
  • Caroline Marcantonio Ferreira,
  • Hélène Perée,
  • Mariangela Spagnuolo,
  • Raphaël Mattiuz,
  • Csaba Matolcsi,
  • Joana Guedes,
  • Jonathan Clark,
  • Marc Veldhoen,
  • Tiziana Bonaldi,
  • Marco Aurélio Ramirez Vinolo,
  • Patrick Varga-Weisz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02651-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Histone post-translational modifications are known key regulators of gene expression. Here, the authors characterize histone crotonylation at histone H3 lysine 18 in intestinal epithelia and find that it is a highly dynamic cell cycle regulated mark under the regulation of the HDAC deacetylases.