Inactivating histone deacetylase HDA promotes longevity by mobilizing trehalose metabolism

Ruofan Yu, Xiaohua Cao, Luyang Sun, Jun yi Zhu, Brian M. Wasko, Wei Liu, Emeline Crutcher, Haiying Liu, Myeong Chan Jo, Lidong Qin, Matt Kaeberlein, Zhe Han, Weiwei Dang

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Abstract

Histone acetylations are important epigenetic markers for transcriptional activation in response to metabolic changes and various stresses. Using the high-throughput SEquencing-Based Yeast replicative Lifespan screen method and the yeast knockout collection, we demonstrate that the HDA complex, a class-II histone deacetylase (HDAC), regulates aging through its target of acetylated H3K18 at storage carbohydrate genes. We find that, in addition to longer lifespan, disruption of HDA results in resistance to DNA damage and osmotic stresses. We show that these effects are due to increased promoter H3K18 acetylation and transcriptional activation in the trehalose metabolic pathway in the absence of HDA. Furthermore, we determine that the longevity effect of HDA is independent of the Cyc8-Tup1 repressor complex known to interact with HDA and coordinate transcriptional repression. Silencing the HDA homologs in C. elegans and Drosophila increases their lifespan and delays aging-associated physical declines in adult flies. Hence, we demonstrate that this HDAC controls an evolutionarily conserved longevity pathway.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number1981
Pages (from-to)1981
JournalNature Communications
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 31 2021

Keywords

  • Aging/genetics
  • Animals
  • Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics
  • Drosophila melanogaster/genetics
  • Enzyme Activation/genetics
  • Histone Deacetylases/genetics
  • Longevity/genetics
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics
  • Trehalose/metabolism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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