Accession PRJCA002860
Title Resetting epigenetic memory by reprogramming of histone modifications in mammals
Relevance Model organism
Data types Epigenomics
Transcriptome or Gene expression
Organisms Mus musculus
Description Polycomb group proteins and the related histone modification H3K27me3 can maintain the silencing of key developmental regulators and provide cellular memory. However, how such epigenetic state is reprogrammed and inherited between generations is poorly understood. Using an ultra-sensitive approach STAR ChIP-seq, we investigated H3K27me3 across 14 developmental stages along mouse gametogenesis and early development. Interestingly, highly pervasive H3K27me3 was found in regions depleted of transcription and DNA methylation in oocytes. Unexpectedly, we observed extensive loss of promoter H3K27me3 at Hox and other developmental genes upon fertilization. This is accompanied by global erasure of sperm H3K27me3 but inheritance of distal H3K27me3 from oocytes. The resulting allele-specific H3K27me3 patterns persist to blastocysts before being converted to canonical forms in postimplantation embryos, where both the H3K4me3/H3K27me3 bivalent promoter marks are restored at developmental genes. Together, these data revealed widespread resetting of epigenetic memory and striking plasticity of epigenome during gametogenesis and early development.
Sample scope Multiisolate
Release date 2020-06-15
Publication
PubMed ID Article title Journal name DOI Year
27635762
Grants
Agency program Grant ID Grant title
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 91519326
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 31422031
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) 2015CB856201
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) 2016YFC0900301
Accessions in other database
Accession Database name
GSE76687 NCBI
Submitter Hui    Zheng  (huizheng15@163.com)
Organization Tsinghua University
Submission date 2020-06-15

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CRA002815 Resetting epigenetic memory by reprogramming of histone modifications in mammals