Nature Communications (May 2019)

Inactivation of nuclear histone deacetylases by EP300 disrupts the MiCEE complex in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

  • Karla Rubio,
  • Indrabahadur Singh,
  • Stephanie Dobersch,
  • Pouya Sarvari,
  • Stefan Günther,
  • Julio Cordero,
  • Aditi Mehta,
  • Lukasz Wujak,
  • Hector Cabrera-Fuentes,
  • Cho-Ming Chao,
  • Peter Braubach,
  • Saverio Bellusci,
  • Werner Seeger,
  • Andreas Günther,
  • Klaus T. Preissner,
  • Malgorzata Wygrecka,
  • Rajkumar Savai,
  • Dulce Papy-Garcia,
  • Gergana Dobreva,
  • Mathias Heikenwalder,
  • Soni Savai-Pullamsetti,
  • Thomas Braun,
  • Guillermo Barreto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10066-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a lethal disease with insufficient treatment strategies. Here the authors show that reduction of the microRNA MIRLET7D and hyperactivation of EP300 contribute to impaired epigenetic silencing by the MiCEE complex in pulmonary fibroblasts of IPF patients, and demonstrate the benefit of inhibiting EP300 for the treatment of IPF.