ArticleGenome research2007
Butyrate mediates decrease of histone acetylation centered on transcription start sites and down-regulation of associated genes.
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- Epigenetic Alterations in Microbiome-Host Interactions in Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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- The impact of gut microbial short-chain fatty acids on colorectal cancer development and prevention.Gut microbes · 2025Review
- Butyrate-Mediated Upregulation of Insulin Pathway Gene Expression Suggests Potential Antidiabetic Effects.Drug development research · 2025Article
- Epigenetic Reprogramming Via Sodium Butyrate Induces Corneal Myofibroblast Dedifferentiation In Vitro and Inhibits Fibrosis In Vivo.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Microbiota-gut-brain axis in neurodegenerative diseases: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets.Molecular biomedicine · 2025Review
- Butyrate Selectively Targets Super-Enhancers and Transcriptional Networks Associated with Human Mast Cell Function.European journal of immunology · 2025Article
- Role of epigenetics in corneal health and disease.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2025Review
- Gut microbiome, short-chain fatty acids, alpha-synuclein, neuroinflammation, and ROS/RNS: Relevance to Parkinson's disease and therapeutic implications.Redox biology · 2024Review
- A Two-Faced Gut Microbiome: Butyrogenic and Proinflammatory Bacteria Predominate in the Intestinal Milieu of People Living with HIV from Western Mexico.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Association of fecal short-chain fatty acids with clinical severity and gut microbiota in essential tremor and its difference from Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2023Article
- Genome-Wide Acetylation Modification of H3K27ac in Bovine Rumen Cell Following Butyrate Exposure.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Targeting the Clear Cell Sarcoma Oncogenic Driver Fusion GeneCancer research communications · 2023Article
- Tributyrin Intake Attenuates Angiotensin II-Induced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Sodium butyrate alleviates deoxynivalenol-induced hepatic cholesterol metabolic dysfunction via RORγ-mediated histone acetylation modification in weaning piglets.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Butyrate is a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) with anti-neoplastic properties, which theoretically reactivates epigenetically silenced genes by increasing global histone acetylation. However, recent studies indicate that a similar number or even more genes are down-regulated than up-regulated by this drug. We treated hepatocarcinoma HepG2 cells with butyrate and characterized the levels of acetylation at DNA-bound histones H3 and H4 by ChIP-chip along the ENCODE regions. In contrast to the global increases of histone acetylation, many genomic regions close to transcription start sites were deacetylated after butyrate exposure. In order to validate these findings, we found that both butyrate and trichostatin A treatment resulted in histone deacetylation at selected regions, while nucleosome loss or changes in histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) did not occur in such locations. Furthermore, similar histone deacetylation events were observed when colon adenocarcinoma HT-29 cells were treated with butyrate. In addition, genes with deacetylated promoters were down-regulated by butyrate, and this was mediated at the transcriptional level by affecting RNA polymerase II (POLR2A) initiation/elongation. Finally, the global increase in acetylated histones was preferentially localized to the nuclear periphery, indicating that it might not be associated to euchromatin. Our results are significant for the evaluation of HDACi as anti-tumourogenic drugs, suggesting that previous models of action might need to be revised, and provides an explanation for the frequently observed repression of many genes during HDACi treatment.
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