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Mouse embryonic RNA-seq

ABSTRACT: The study was aimed at interrogating the early stages of blood cell development within the embryo. Blood develops from mesoderm, which is specified at gastrulation. We therefore sorted cells from mouse embryos between E6.5 and E7.75 to capture gastrulation and the emergence of mesoderm, followed by specificiation of the first mature blood cells.

INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 2500

ORGANISM(S): Mus Musculus

SUBMITTER: Yosuke Tanaka

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-4079 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:DNA methylation changes dynamically during development and is essential for embryogenesis in mammals. However, how DNA methylation affects developmental gene expression and cell differentiation remains elusive. During embryogenesis, many key transcription factors are used repeatedly, triggering different outcomes depending on the cell type and developmental stage. Here, we report that DNA methylation modulates transcription-factor output in the context of cell differentiation. Using a drug-inducible Gata4 system and a mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell model of mesoderm differentiation, we examined the cellular response to Gata4 in ES and mesoderm cells. The activation of Gata4 in ES cells is known to drive their differentiation to endoderm. We show that the differentiation of wild-type ES cells into mesoderm blocks their Gata4-induced endoderm differentiation, while mesoderm cells derived from ES cells that are deficient in the DNA methyltransferases Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b can retain their response to Gata4, allowing lineage conversion from mesoderm cells to endoderm in part. Transcriptome analysis of the cells' response to Gata4 over time revealed groups of endoderm and mesoderm developmental genes whose expression was induced by Gata4 only when DNA methylation was lost, suggesting that DNA methylation restricts the ability of these genes to respond to Gata4, rather than controlling their transcription per se. Our data indicate that epigenetic regulation by DNA methylation functions as a heritable safeguard to prevent transcription factors from activating inappropriate downstream genes, thereby contributing to the restriction of the differentiation potential of somatic cells. To understand how mouse cells differentially respond to Gata4 in cell type- and DNA methylation-dependent manners and to examine what genes are differentially regulated, we analyzed temporal change of gene expression profile in response to Gata4 in ES or Flk1(+) mesoderm cells in WT and Dnmt3a-/-Dnmt3b-/- (DKO) background, in total 108 samples.

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Mouse embryonic RNA-seq

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