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Status |
Public on Sep 10, 2015 |
Title |
Zscan4 mediates transient remodeling and transcriptional burst of heterochromatin in mouse embryonic stem cells |
Organism |
Mus musculus |
Experiment type |
Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing Methylation profiling by high throughput sequencing Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
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Summary |
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Repetitive sequences such as telomeres, centromeres, and retrotransposons are packed in permanently-condensed and transcriptionally-silenced heterochromatin, whose maintenance is critical for the genome stability. We have recently found that mouse ES cells occasionally go through a unique cell state marked by the transient expression of Zscan4, which plays a key role in long-term genome stability. Here we report our unexpected and counterintuitive finding that the Zscan4+ state is accompanied by a Zscan4-mediated rapid activation and repression of heterochromatin: the burst of transcription from heterochromatin coincided with its transient histone hyperacetylation and DNA demethylation, the clustering of pericentromeric heterochromatin in the perinucleolar region, and the accumulation of chromatin remodeling complexes for both activation (HATs, SWI/SNF) and repression (HDACs, LSD1/KDM1A, NuRD) on heterochromatin. Overall, these findings suggest that ES cells maintain their extraordinary genome stability and immortality by transiently taking extreme measures – a usually forbidden transition to the activated state of heterochromatin.
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Overall design |
Refer to individual Series
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Citation(s) |
26324425 |
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Submission date |
Oct 24, 2013 |
Last update date |
May 15, 2019 |
Contact name |
Minoru S.H. Ko |
E-mail(s) |
kom@mail.nih.gov
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Phone |
410-558-8359
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Organization name |
NIH
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Department |
National Institute on Aging
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Lab |
Lab of Genetics
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Street address |
251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 100, 10C
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City |
Baltimore |
State/province |
MD |
ZIP/Postal code |
21224 |
Country |
USA |
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Platforms (2) |
GPL11002 |
Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx (Mus musculus) |
GPL17021 |
Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Mus musculus) |
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Samples (16)
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This SuperSeries is composed of the following SubSeries:
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GSE51679 |
ChIP-seq assays for H3K27ac |
GSE51680 |
Genome-wide DNA methylation analyses by the HELP assay |
GSE58617 |
ChIP-seq assays for H3K9me2 |
GSE58618 |
Genome-wide DNA methylation analyses by the MeDIP assay |
GSE58619 |
Genome-wide transcriptome analyses by the RNA-seq method |
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Relations |
BioProject |
PRJNA224553 |