TY - JOUR
T1 - Differential requirements for Tousled-like kinases 1 and 2 in mammalian development
AU - Segura-Bayona, Sandra
AU - Knobel, Philip A.
AU - Gonzalez-Buron, Helena
AU - Youssef, Sameh A.
AU - Peña-Blanco, Aida
AU - Coyaud, Etienne
AU - Lopez-Rovira, Teresa
AU - Rein, Katrin
AU - Palenzuela, Lluís
AU - Colombelli, Julien
AU - Forrow, Stephen
AU - Raught, Brian
AU - Groth, Anja
AU - De Bruin, Alain
AU - Stracker, Travis H.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - The regulation of chromatin structure is critical for a wide range of essential cellular processes. The Tousled-like kinases, TLK1 and TLK2, regulate ASF1, a histone H3/H4 chaperone, and likely other substrates, and their activity has been implicated in transcription, DNA replication, DNA repair, RNA interference, cell cycle progression, viral latency, chromosome segregation and mitosis. However, little is known about the functions of TLK activity in vivo or the relative functions of the highly similar TLK1 and TLK2 in any cell type. To begin to address this, we have generated Tlk1- and Tlk2-deficient mice. We found that while TLK1 was dispensable for murine viability, TLK2 loss led to late embryonic lethality because of placental failure. TLK2 was required for normal trophoblast differentiation and the phosphorylation of ASF1 was reduced in placentas lacking TLK2. Conditional bypass of the placental phenotype allowed the generation of apparently healthy Tlk2-deficient mice, while only the depletion of both TLK1 and TLK2 led to extensive genomic instability, indicating that both activities contribute to genome maintenance. Our data identifies a specific role for TLK2 in placental function during mammalian development and suggests that TLK1 and TLK2 have largely redundant roles in genome maintenance.
AB - The regulation of chromatin structure is critical for a wide range of essential cellular processes. The Tousled-like kinases, TLK1 and TLK2, regulate ASF1, a histone H3/H4 chaperone, and likely other substrates, and their activity has been implicated in transcription, DNA replication, DNA repair, RNA interference, cell cycle progression, viral latency, chromosome segregation and mitosis. However, little is known about the functions of TLK activity in vivo or the relative functions of the highly similar TLK1 and TLK2 in any cell type. To begin to address this, we have generated Tlk1- and Tlk2-deficient mice. We found that while TLK1 was dispensable for murine viability, TLK2 loss led to late embryonic lethality because of placental failure. TLK2 was required for normal trophoblast differentiation and the phosphorylation of ASF1 was reduced in placentas lacking TLK2. Conditional bypass of the placental phenotype allowed the generation of apparently healthy Tlk2-deficient mice, while only the depletion of both TLK1 and TLK2 led to extensive genomic instability, indicating that both activities contribute to genome maintenance. Our data identifies a specific role for TLK2 in placental function during mammalian development and suggests that TLK1 and TLK2 have largely redundant roles in genome maintenance.
U2 - 10.1038/cdd.2017.108
DO - 10.1038/cdd.2017.108
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 28708136
AN - SCOPUS:85030751604
SN - 1350-9047
VL - 24
SP - 1872
EP - 1885
JO - Cell Differentiation and Development
JF - Cell Differentiation and Development
IS - 11
ER -