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Series GSE26609 Query DataSets for GSE26609
Status Public on Jan 13, 2011
Title Genes for embryo development are packaged in blocks of multivalent chromatin in zebrafish sperm
Organism Danio rerio
Experiment type Genome binding/occupancy profiling by genome tiling array
Methylation profiling by genome tiling array
Expression profiling by array
Summary In mature human sperm, genes of importance for embryo development (i.e. transcription factors) lack DNA methylation and bear nucleosomes with distinctive histone modifications, suggesting the specialized packaging of these developmental genes in the germline. Here, we explored the tractable zebrafish model and found conceptual conservation as well as several new features. Biochemical and mass spectrometric approaches reveal the zebrafish sperm genome packaged in nucleosomes and histone variants (and not protamine), and we find linker histones high and H4K16ac absent - key factors which may contribute to genome condensation. We examined several activating (H3K4me2/3, H3K14ac, H2AFV) and repressing (H3K27me3, H3K36me3, H3K9me3, hypoacetylation) modifications/compositions genome-wide, and find developmental genes packaged in large blocks of chromatin with coincident activating and repressing marks and DNA hypomethylation, revealing complex ‘multivalent’ chromatin. Notably, genes that acquire DNA methylation in the soma (muscle) are enriched in transcription factors for alternative cell fates. Remarkably, we find H3K36me3 located in ‘silent’ developmental gene promoters, and not present at the 3’ ends of coding regions of genes heavily transcribed during sperm maturation, suggesting different rules for H3K36me3 in the germline and soma. We also reveal the chromatin patterns of transposons, rDNA, and tRNAs. Finally, high levels of H3K4me3 and H3K14ac in sperm are correlated with genes activated in embryos prior to the mid-blastula transition (MBT), whereas multivalent genes are correlated with activation at or after MBT. Taken together, gene sets with particular functions in the embryo are packaged by distinctive types of complex and often atypical chromatin in sperm.
 
Overall design [DNA profiling]: H3K4me3, H3K4me2, H3K14ac, H3K36me3, H3K27me3, H3K9me3, and H2AFV ChIP-chip in zebrafish sperm; DNA methylation in zebrafish sperm and muscle by MeDIP-chip. (two replicates and dye-swaps for all experiments). Antibodies: H3K4me3 (Abcam ab8580 and Active Motif 39159), H3K4me2 (Abcam ab7766), H3K14Ac (Upstate 07-353), H2AZ (Abcam ab4174), H3K27me3 (Upstate 07-449), H3K9me3 (Active Motif 39161), H3K36me3 (Abcam ab9050), 5-methylcytidine (Eurogentec BI-MECY-1000). Supplementary files: Processed data files reporting calculated enrichment log2 ratio (mean ChIP/mean Input in the log2 ratio). Note: For analysis, "mean Input" from H3K4me3-rep1 ch1, H3K4me2-rep1 ch2, and H3K36me3-rep2 ch1 for all ChIP eluates.

[mRNA profiling]: Transcripts in zebrafish mature sperm using zebrafish expression microarray from Agilent. (two replicates)
 
Contributor(s) Wu S, Zhang H, Cairns BR
Citation(s) 21383318
Submission date Jan 13, 2011
Last update date Apr 06, 2012
Contact name Shan-Fu Wu
E-mail(s) shan-fu.wu@hci.utah.edu
Phone (801)585-1823
Organization name University of Utah
Department Oncological Sciences
Lab Cairns lab
Street address 2000 Circle of Hope
City Salt Lake City
State/province UT
ZIP/Postal code 84112
Country USA
 
Platforms (3)
GPL6600 Zebrafish 12kb promoter 244K array_slide 1 of 2
GPL6601 Zebrafish 12kb promoter 244K array_slide 2 of 2
GPL7302 Agilent-015064 D. rerio (Zebrafish) Oligo Microarray 4x44K G2519F (Probe Name version)
Samples (38)
GSM654994 sperm H3K4me3 ChIP replicate 1 (slide 1 of 2)
GSM654995 sperm H3K4me3 ChIP replicate 2 (slide 1 of 2)
GSM654996 sperm H3K4me2 ChIP replicate 1 (slide 1 of 2)
Relations
BioProject PRJNA136217

Download family Format
SOFT formatted family file(s) SOFTHelp
MINiML formatted family file(s) MINiMLHelp
Series Matrix File(s) TXTHelp

Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE26609_H2AFV_sp_ChIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_H3K14ac_sp_ChIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_H3K27me3_sp_ChIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_H3K36me3_sp_ChIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_H3K4me2_sp_ChIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_H3K4me3_sp_ChIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_H3K9me3_sp_ChIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_RAW.tar 2.4 Gb (http)(custom) TAR (of TXT)
GSE26609_muscle_MeDIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE26609_sperm_MeDIP.txt.gz 3.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
Processed data included within Sample table
Processed data are available on Series record

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