Methylation deficiency disrupts biological rhythms from bacteria to humans
Fustin, Jean Michel, Ye, Shiqi, Rakers, Christin, Kaneko, Kensuke, Fukumoto, Kazuki, Yamano, Mayu, Versteven, Marijke, Grünewald, Ellen, Cargill, Samantha J., Tamai, T. Katherine, Xu, Yao, Jabbur, Maria Luísa, Kojima, Rika, Lamberti, Melisa L., Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Kumiko, Whitmore, David, Tammam, Stephanie, Howell, P. Lynne, Kageyama, Ryoichiro, Matsuo, Takuya, Stanewsky, Ralf, Golombek, Diego A., Johnson, Carl Hirschie, Kakeya, Hideaki, van Ooijen, Gerben, and Okamura, Hitoshi (2020) Methylation deficiency disrupts biological rhythms from bacteria to humans. Communications Biology, 3 (1). 211.
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Abstract
The methyl cycle is a universal metabolic pathway providing methyl groups for the methylation of nuclei acids and proteins, regulating all aspects of cellular physiology. We have previously shown that methyl cycle inhibition in mammals strongly affects circadian rhythms. Since the methyl cycle and circadian clocks have evolved early during evolution and operate in organisms across the tree of life, we sought to determine whether the link between the two is also conserved. Here, we show that methyl cycle inhibition affects biological rhythms in species ranging from unicellular algae to humans, separated by more than 1 billion years of evolution. In contrast, the cyanobacterial clock is resistant to methyl cycle inhibition, although we demonstrate that methylations themselves regulate circadian rhythms in this organism. Mammalian cells with a rewired bacteria-like methyl cycle are protected, like cyanobacteria, from methyl cycle inhibition, providing interesting new possibilities for the treatment of methylation deficiencies.
| Item ID: | 75322 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2399-3642 |
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| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2022 00:27 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3109 Zoology > 310909 Animal physiology - cell @ 100% |
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