Mono-ADP-ribosylation of H3R117 traps 5mC hydroxylase TET1 to impair demethylation of tumor suppressor gene TFPI2.

Recently, nuclear poly-ADP-ribosylation had aroused research interest in epigenetics, but little attempt to explore functions of mono-ADP-ribosylation of histone, the major formation of histone ADP-ribosylated modification. We have previously reported a novel mono-ADP-ribosylation of H3R117, which promoted proliferation of LoVo cells. Here we showed that mono-ADP-ribosylated H3R117 of LoVo cells depressed demethylation of tumor suppressor TFPI2 promoter by suppressing TET1 expression and adjusting H3K9me3 enrichment of TFPI2 promoter to attenuate affinity of TET1, besides, since high H3K27me3 level was associated with hypermethylation, mono-ADP-ribosylated-H3R117-depended-H3K27me3 of TFPI2 promoter may contribute to hypermethylation of TFPI2. However, H3R117A mutation increased poly-ADP-ribosylated modification of TET1 promoter not TFPI2 promoter, which resulted in boosting transcription and expression of TET1 by altering DNA methylated modification, chromatin accessibility, and histone-methylated modification of TET1 promoter, while knockout TET1 of H3R117A LoVo cells directly led to hypermethylation of TFPI2 promoter and depression of TFPI2 secretion as well as enhanced proliferation, suggested that TET1 played a key role in demethylation of TFPI2, production of TFPI2, and cell proliferation. Bioinformatics analyses reveal prevalent hypermethylation of TFPI2 was an early event in tumorigenesis of colorectal caner, and expression of TET1 and TFPI2 was positive correlation in colorectal cancer and normal tissue. These data suggested that mono-ADP-ribosylation of H3R117 upregulated methylation of TFPI2 by impact TET1, since hypermethyaltion of TFPI2 was an early event in tumorigenesis, selectively target mono-ADP-ribosylation of H3R117 deficiency could be a feasible way to block tumorigenesis of colorectal cancer.