H3K4me1 & H3K27ac ChIP on chip for Mouse E11.5 distal limb bud tissue
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ABSTRACT: Profiling H3K4me1 & H3K27ac histone modifications across the ZRS and a selection of limb development genes within Mouse E11.5 distal limb bud tissue.
Project description:ChIP profiling of transcription factor Etv4 (Pea3) Gabpa, Histone deacetylase HDAC2, Ep300 and Histone tails H3K4me1 and H3K27ac in E11.5 limb derived cell line (14Fp ) across the ZRS and a selection of limb development genes
Project description:Two different groups of Ets transcription factors differentially act directly at the ZRS to define the spatial expression of Shh in the limb. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) of Gabpa, Ets1, Etv4, Etv5 and Elf1 and by ChIP-on-chip analysis demonstrated that with the exception of Elf1 all bind directly to the Shh limb enhancer, the ZRS. Array design includes 2 biological replicates for Gabpa and Elf1, and two biological replicates and one dye swap replicate for Ets1, Etv4 and Etv5 samples.
Project description:Two different groups of Ets transcription factors differentially act directly at the ZRS to define the spatial expression of Shh in the limb. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) of Gabpa, Ets1, Etv4, Etv5 and Elf1 and by ChIP-on-chip analysis demonstrated that with the exception of Elf1 all bind directly to the Shh limb enhancer, the ZRS.
Project description:Limb-specific expression of Shh is regulated by the long-range (~one megabasepair distant) ZRS enhancer. In the mouse, murine limb bud restricted spatiotemporal expression of Shh occurs from ~E10 until E11.5 at the distal posterior margin is essential for the correct formation of the autopod. Here, we have analyzed the higher-order chromatin conformation of Shh in expressing and non-expressing tissues, both by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and by chromosome conformation capture (5C). Conventional and super-resolution light microscopy identified significantly elevated frequences of Shh/ZRS co-localization only in the Shh expressing regions of the limb bud consistent with the formation of an enhancer-promoter loop. However, Shh-ZRS spatial distances were consistently shorter than intervening distances to a neural enhancer in all tissues and developmental stages analyzed – regardless of Shh expression. 5C also identified a topologically associating domain (TAD) over the Shh-ZRS genomic region and enriched interactions between Shh and ZRS, but in the head, body and limb buds of E11.5 embryos, so also not linked to Shh expression. We show that gene-enhancer (Shh/ZRS) co-localization correlates with the spatiotemporal domain of limb bud-specific Shh expression, but that close Shh/ZRS proximity in the nucleus occurs regardless of whether the gene or enhancer is active. We suggest that this constrained chromatin configuration optimises the opportunity for the active enhancer to locate and instigate Shh expression.
Project description:m6A regulates virtually every step in RNA metabolism. However, its toles in limb development remains largely unknown. To understand the roles, we created a limb bud-specific conditional knockout (cKO) mice and control heterozygous (cHet) mice of the Mettl14 gene, which encodes an essential subunit in the m6A methyltransferase complex METTL3/METTL14. We harvested limb buds from the mice on E12.5 and applied the proteins to quantitative mass spectrometry to understand how the depletion of Mettl14 affected the proteomes.
Project description:Analysis of mouse limb bud (E10.5) lacking the Bhlha9 gene. Bhlha9 knockout mouse shows syndactyly and poliosis in the limb. This microarray results provides insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying Bhlha9 function in the limb development DNA microarray analysis was performed using Affymetrix mouse genome 430 2.0 array. RNA samples were obtained from the whole limb bud of the E10.5 wild-type and Bhlha9 knockout embryos described above. Total RNA (200 ng) was reverse-transcribed and biotinylated using the GeneChip 3â² IVT Express Kit (Affymetrix). The microarray data were summarized using the MAS 5.0 method.
Project description:Limb patterning relies in a large part on the function of the Hox family of developmental genes. While the differential expression of Hox genes shifts from the anterior-posterior (A-P) to the proximal-distal (P-D) axis around embryonic day 11 (E11), whether this shift coincides with a more global change of P-D versus A-P patterning program remains unclear. By performing and analyzing the transcriptome of the developing limb bud from E10.5 to E12.5, at single cell resolution, we have uncovered transcriptional trajectories which revealed a general switch from A-P to P-D genetic program between E10.5 and E11.5. Interestingly, the transcriptional trajectories at E10.5 all end with cells expressing either proximal or distal markers suggesting a progressive acquisition of P-D identity. Moreover, we observed that distally expressed Hox genes, namely Hoxa13 and Hoxd13, act as a key determinant for P-D patterning as their transcriptional control results in their distal restricted expression, which in turn restricts Hoxa11 in the proximal limb bud domain, in progenitor cells of the zeugopod. Finally, we identified three categories of genes expressed in the distal limb mesenchyme characterized by distinct temporal expression dynamics. As anticipated from previous results, HOX13 binding was observed within or in the neighborhood of several of these genes consistent with previous evidence suggesting that the transition from the early/proximal to the late/distal transcriptome of the limb mesenchyme largely relies on HOX13 function.