scholarly journals GATA6 defines endoderm fate by controlling chromatin accessibility during differentiation of human-induced pluripotent stem cells

Cell Reports ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 109145
Author(s):  
James A. Heslop ◽  
Behshad Pournasr ◽  
Jui-Tung Liu ◽  
Stephen A. Duncan
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Gallego Romero ◽  
Shyam Gopalakrishnan ◽  
Yoav Gilad

AbstractChanges in gene regulation have been shown to contribute to phenotypic differences between closely related species, most notably in primates. It is likely that a subset of inter-species regulatory differences can be explained by changes in chromatin accessibility and transcription factor binding, yet there is a paucity of comparative data sets with which to investigate this. Using ATAC-seq, we profiled genome-wide chromatin accessibility in a matched set of 6 human and 6 chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, our closest living relative) induced pluripotent stem cells from which we have previously collected gene expression data. We examined chromatin accessibility patterns near 20,745 orthologous transcriptions start sites and used a footprinting algorithm to predict transcription factor binding activity in each species. We found that the majority of chromatin accessibility patterns and transcription factor activity are conserved between these two closely related species. Interestingly, interspecies divergence in chromatin accessibility and transcription factor binding in pluripotent cells appear to contribute not to differences in the pluripotent state, but to downstream developmental processes. Put together, our findings suggest that the pluripotent state is extremely stable and potentially subject to stronger evolutionary constraint than other somatic tissues.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Mojsa ◽  
Michael H. Tatham ◽  
Lindsay Davidson ◽  
Magda Liczmanska ◽  
Jane E. Wright ◽  
...  

AbstractPluripotent stem cells represent a powerful system to identify the mechanisms governing cell fate decisions during early mammalian development. Covalent attachment of the Small Ubiquitin Like Modifier (SUMO) to proteins has emerged as an important factor in stem cell maintenance. Here we show that SUMO is required to maintain stem cells in their pluripotent state and identify many chromatin-associated proteins as bona fide SUMO substrates in human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Loss of SUMO increases chromatin accessibility and expression of long non-coding RNAs and human endogenous retroviral elements, indicating a role for the SUMO modification of SETDB1 and a large TRIM28 centric network of zinc finger proteins in silencing of these elements. While most protein coding genes are unaffected, the Preferentially Expressed Antigen of Melanoma (PRAME) gene locus becomes more accessible and transcription is dramatically increased after inhibition of SUMO modification. When PRAME is silent, a peak of SUMO over the transcriptional start site overlaps with ChIP-seq peaks for cohesin, RNA pol II, CTCF and ZNF143, with the latter two heavily modified by SUMO. These associations suggest that silencing of the PRAME gene is maintained by the influence of SUMO on higher order chromatin structure. Our data indicate that SUMO modification plays an important role in hiPSCs by repressing genes that disrupt pluripotency networks or drive differentiation.


2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S36-S36
Author(s):  
Ping Duan ◽  
Xuelin Ren ◽  
Wenhai Yan ◽  
Xuefei Han ◽  
Xu Yan ◽  
...  

Acta Naturae ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
M V Shutova ◽  
A N Bogomazova ◽  
M A Lagarkova ◽  
S L Kiselev

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talluri Thirumala Rao ◽  
Dharmendra Kumar ◽  
Silke Glage ◽  
Wiebke Garrels ◽  
Katharina Debowski ◽  
...  

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