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Nuclear class 3 PI3K co-activates fasting-specific chromatin remodelling
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Transcriptional remodelling during fasting ensures metabolic adaptation and provides health benefits across species. Although several regulators of fasting-induced transcription and chromatin are known, how nutrient levels directly influence RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) and epigenetic writers remains unclear. Here we show that lipid kinase class 3 phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K-3), a master regulator of autophagy, also functions on chromatin as a co-activator of epigenetic writers to promote RNAPII transcription. PI3K-3 overlaps with transcriptionally engaged RNAPII phosphorylated at Ser5 and with Setd1a/COMPASS, the complex that deposits the activating H3K4me3 mark. Nuclear PI3K-3 interacts with RNAPII and Setd1a/COMPASS and promotes their chromatin binding. PI3K-3 loss reduces RNAPII-S5p and H3K4me3 at selected genes, whereas PI3K-3 overexpression co-activates p300/CBP and chromatin-targeted PI3K-3 increases H3K4me3. During starvation, PI3K-3 induces autophagy genes and drives fasted liver towards ketogenesis and lipid degradation. These findings link nutrient stress to chromatin-mediated transcriptional activation. Henneman et al. report an unexpected role for class 3 PI3K (PI3K-3) acting as a transcriptional co-activator during fasting. They show that nuclear PI3K-3 co-activates the methyltransferase Set1/COMPASS complex to promote H3K4me3 deposition.
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