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S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is a donor which provides the methyl groups for histone or nucleic acid modification and phosphatidylcholine production. SAM is hypothesized to link metabolism and chromatin modification, however, its role in acute gene regulation is poorly understood. We recently found that  Caenorhabditis elegans  with reduced SAM had deficiencies in H3K4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) at pathogen-response genes, decreasing their expression and limiting pathogen resistance. We hypothesized that SAM may be generally required for stress-responsive transcription. Here, using genetic assays, we show that transcriptional responses to bacterial or xenotoxic stress fail in  C .  elegans  with low SAM, but that expression of heat shock genes are unaffected. We also found that two H3K4 methyltransferases,  set-2/SET1  and  set-16/MLL , had differential responses to survival during stress.  set-2 /SET1 is specifically required in bacterial responses, whereas  set-16/MLL  is universally required. These results define a role for SAM in the acute stress-responsive gene expression. Finally, we find that modification of metabolic gene expression correlates with enhanced survival during stress.

Stress-responsive and metabolic gene regulation are altered in low S-adenosylmethionine