Abstract
A balance of histone acetylation and deacetylation governs the regulation of genes that are involved in the dif- ferentiation and stratification of the mammalian epidermis. Class II HDACs (HDAC4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10) frequently undergo nucleocytoplasmic flux resulting in gene derepression. Of the Class I HDACs (HDAC1, 2, 3, 8), HDAC2 has only been described in a nuclear setting. Here we report that a specific in vivo subpopulation of epidermal keratinocytes undergoing apoptotic-like terminal differentiation demonstrate complete cytoplasmic sequestration of HDAC2, robust Keratin-10 ex- pression, and canonical nuclear fragmentation. Paralleling our in vivo findings, proteosomal degradation of total cellular HDAC2 enhanced Keratin-10 expression in undifferentiated HFK cells. Forced HDAC2 nuclear overexpression and re- tention results in a partial differentiation block as measured by reduced Keratin-10 expression and delayed chromatin fragmentation. We offer a preliminary model whereby cytoplasmic sequestration of the HDAC2 transcriptional corepres- sor contributes, in part, to the process of mammalian epidermal differentiation. (words 150)
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