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Epigenetic determinants of muscle stem cell quiescence and chronological aging (ChIP-seq)

ABSTRACT: Skeletal muscle is a post-mitotic tissue that exhibits an extremely low turnover in the absence of disease or injury. At the same time, muscle possesses remarkable regenerative capacity mediated by satellite cells (SCs) that reside in close association with individual myofibers, underneath the fiberM-bM-^@M-^Ys basal lamina. Consistent with the low turnover of the muscle, SCs in adult animals are mitotically quiescent and therefore provide an excellent model to study stem cell quiescence. As an organism grows older, the resident stem cells are exposed to a deteriorating environment and experience chronological aging. In stem cells with high turnover, the effects of chronological aging are superimposed upon the effects of the replicative aging that results from DNA replication and cell division. On the contrary, SCs experience minimal replicative aging due to their low turnover. They are thus a good model to study the consequence of chronological aging of quiescent stem cells. We have developed an isolation protocol to selectively enrich SCs by FACS from adult mice and applied the ChIP-seq technology to obtain H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K36me3 from quiescent and activated SCs from young mice and from quiescent SCs from old mice. Our analysis aims to understand the chromatin features underlying stem cell properties such as quiecence and lineage-potency, and to understand how the chromatin structure of a quiescent stem cell pouplation changes with age. VCAM+/CD31-/CD45-/Sca1- quiescent satellite cells (QSCs) were isolated by FACS from hindlimb muscle of uninjured 2-3- or 22-24-month old mice and processed for ChIP-seq.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Ling Liu

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-47362 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Chromatin modifications as determinants of muscle stem cell quiescence and chronological aging.

Liu Ling L Cheung Tom H TH Charville Gregory W GW Hurgo Bernadette Marie Ceniza BM Leavitt Tripp T Shih Johnathan J Brunet Anne A Rando Thomas A TA

Cell reports 20130627 1

The ability to maintain quiescence is critical for the long-term maintenance of a functional stem cell pool. To date, the epigenetic and transcriptional characteristics of quiescent stem cells and how they change with age remain largely unknown. In this study, we explore the chromatin features of adult skeletal muscle stem cells, or satellite cells (SCs), which reside predominantly in a quiescent state in fully developed limb muscles of both young and aged mice. Using a ChIP-seq approach to obta ...[more]

PMID: 23810552

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Project description:A unique property of many adult stem cells is their ability to exist in a non-cycling, quiescent state. Although quiescence serves an essential role in preserving stem cell function until the stem cell is needed in tissue homeostasis or repair, defects in quiescence can lead to an impairment in tissue function, the extent to which stem cells can regulate quiescence is unknown. Here, we show that the stem cell quiescent state is composed of two distinct functional phases: G0 and an “alert” phase we term GAlert, and that stem cells actively and reversibly transition between these phases in response to injury-induced, systemic signals. Using genetic models specific to muscle stem cells (or satellite cells (SCs)), we show that mTORC1 activity is necessary and sufficient for the transition of SCs from G0 into GAlert and that signaling through the HGF receptor, cMet is also necessary. We also identify G0-to-GAlert transitions in several populations of quiescent stem cells. Quiescent stem cells that transition into GAlert possess enhanced tissue regenerative function. We propose that the transition of quiescent stem cells into GAlert functions as an 'alerting' mechanism, a novel adaptive response that positions stem cells to respond rapidly under conditions of injury and stress without requiring cell cycle entry or a cell fate commitment. We performed microarray analysis on muscle stem cells, harvested immediately after isolation, to investigate the transcriptional response these cells have to injury and the role of mTORC1 and cMet have in this response At least 2 weeks after tamoxifen treatment, to induce recombination and expression of the Rosa26rYFP lineage tracer in Pax7 expressing muscle stem cells using a Pax7-CreER driver, YFP+ cells were FACS purified from hindlimb muscles of animals that were noninjured (quiescent satellite cells (QSCs)) or from hindlimb muscle contralateral to muscles where we induced a BaCl2 injury (contralateral satellite cells (CSCs)). We compared the response of wild-type (WT) muscle stem cells to the response elicited by muscle stem cells with conditional ablation of TSC1, Rptor, or cMet genes. Immediately after FACS purification of cells, total RNA was extracted, processed, labeled, and hybridized to Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST arrays. Each biological replicate is a pooled sample of muscle stem cells isolated from 3-4 mice.

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Epigenetic determinants of muscle stem cell quiescence and chronological aging (ChIP-seq)

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Chromatin modifications as determinants of muscle stem cell quiescence and chronological aging.

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