The main topic of my PhD studies was to investigate the role of sumoylation in the function of Ikaros transcription factor, that regulates the lymphocyte differentiation and function. Sumoylation is a posttranslational modification that can change the properties and regulate the function of a given protein. Up to now, one study addressed the question of how sumoylationmodulates Ikaros function. It shows that Ikaros is sumoylated in total primary thymocytes, and that this dynamic event modulates Ikaros' repressive function. It also describes two consensus sumoylation sites on Ikaros (K58 and K240), the sumoylation of which leads to loss of Ikaros repressive function in ectopic reporter gene assays. The final conclusion of the study is that sumoylation does not alter the nuclear localization of Ikaros but acts as a mechanism disrupting its participation in both histone deacetylase (HDAC) dependent and independent repression. My work shows the presence of additional sumoylation site on Ikaros and demonstrates that sumoylation does not significantly alter its interaction with the nucleosome remodelling and histone deacetylase (NURD) complex in T-cell lines. The functional analysis of sumo-deficientmutants indicates a complex role of this modification in regulating Ikaros' transcriptional properties. The identification of this new sumoylation site contributes to a better understanding of Ikaros' dual repressive - activating function and suggests the existence of conditional Ikaros' interacting partners. Moreover, the different Ikaros splicing isoforms would have differentsumoylation profiles, which would complete the knowledge of their functional diversity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CCSD/oai:tel.archives-ouvertes.fr:tel-00923158 |
| Date | 28 September 2012 |
| Creators | Apostolov, Apostol |
| Publisher | Université de Strasbourg |
| Source Sets | CCSD theses-EN-ligne, France |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PhD thesis |
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