SCL establishes a global repressive environment and cooperates with Polycomb RYBP-PRC1 to suppress alternative lineages in blood-fated cells
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE104883 | GEO | 2018/12/27
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:During development, it is unclear if lineage-fated cells derive from multilineage-primed progenitors and whether active mechanisms operate to restrict cell fate. Here we investigate how mesoderm specifies into blood-fated cells. We document temporally restricted co-expression of blood (Scl/Tal1), cardiac (Mesp1) and paraxial (Tbx6) lineage-affiliated transcription factors in single cells, at the onset of blood specification, supporting the existence of common progenitors. At the same time-restricted stage, absence of SCL results in expansion of cardiac/paraxial cell populations and increased cardiac/paraxial gene expression, suggesting active suppression of alternative fates. Indeed, SCL normally activates expression of co-repressor ETO2 and Polycomb-PRC1 subunits (RYBP, PCGF5) and maintains levels of Polycomb-associated histone marks (H2AK119ub/H3K27me3). Genome-wide analyses reveal ETO2 and RYBP co-occupy most SCL target genes, including cardiac/paraxial loci. Reduction of Eto2 or Rybp expression mimics Scl-null cardiac phenotype. Therefore, SCL-mediated transcriptional repression prevents mis-specification of blood-fated cells, establishing active repression as central to fate determination processes.
| S-EPMC6299140 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Understanding the molecular basis of cell fate decision is critical to shed light onto biological processes supporting tissue formation. In particular, whether lineage-fated cells derive from multi-primed progenitors and need to establish active fate restriction mechanisms to engage in a differentiation pathway is still matter of debate. To characterise the mechanisms underlying specification of blood-fated cells from mesodermal precursors, we studied the transcriptional activity of the key hematopoietic regulator SCL/TAL1. Scl-null mouse embryos die at embryonic day E9.5 from absence of blood formation, and exhibit mis-specification of mesodermal cells into cardiomyocytes, thus offering an excellent entry point for mechanistic studies of fate determination. Using high-throughput assays from mouse ES cell-derived mesodermal cells, we showed that, in parallel with activating the blood program and repressing the cardiac and paraxial programs, SCL strongly activates expression of repressors, such as ETO2 (known partner of SCL) and RYBP (member of Polycomb repressive complex PRC1). ETO2’s association with chromatin reflects SCL’s overall genomic binding, pointing to ETO2’s modulatory, rather than purely repressive, transcriptional activities. In contrast, SCL/RYBP chromatin co-occupancy is preferentially enriched at genes normally repressed in blood-fated cells and involved in early developmental processes and alternative lineages, highlighting a relationship between SCL and RYBP/PRC1 in repressive processes. Remarkably, SCL is critical for maintaining high levels of PRC1-associated repressive histone mark H2AK119ub genome-wide. It is also required for maximal levels of repressive mark H3K27me3 on genes normally repressed. Finally, Rybp knock-down in differentiating ES cells phenocopies the cardiac phenotype of Scl-null cells, supporting a functional interaction between SCL and a critical repressive chromatin remodeling complex. Altogether, these data unveil the establishment of a repressive environment in mesodermal progenitors by a hematopoietic-specific transcriptional regulator. This leads to restriction of expression of regulators of alternative fates and uncompromised commitment towards a hematopoietic identity.
2018-12-27 | GSE104841 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the molecular basis of cell fate decision is critical to shed light onto biological processes supporting tissue formation. In particular, whether lineage-fated cells derive from multi-primed progenitors and need to establish active fate restriction mechanisms to engage in a differentiation pathway is still matter of debate. To characterise the mechanisms underlying specification of blood-fated cells from mesodermal precursors, we studied the transcriptional activity of the key hematopoietic regulator SCL/TAL1. Scl-null mouse embryos die at embryonic day E9.5 from absence of blood formation, and exhibit mis-specification of mesodermal cells into cardiomyocytes, thus offering an excellent entry point for mechanistic studies of fate determination. Using high-throughput assays from mouse ES cell-derived mesodermal cells, we showed that, in parallel with activating the blood program and repressing the cardiac and paraxial programs, SCL strongly activates expression of repressors, such as ETO2 (known partner of SCL) and RYBP (member of Polycomb repressive complex PRC1). ETO2’s association with chromatin reflects SCL’s overall genomic binding, pointing to ETO2’s modulatory, rather than purely repressive, transcriptional activities. In contrast, SCL/RYBP chromatin co-occupancy is preferentially enriched at genes normally repressed in blood-fated cells and involved in early developmental processes and alternative lineages, highlighting a relationship between SCL and RYBP/PRC1 in repressive processes. Remarkably, SCL is critical for maintaining high levels of PRC1-associated repressive histone mark H2AK119ub genome-wide. It is also required for maximal levels of repressive mark H3K27me3 on genes normally repressed. Finally, Rybp knock-down in differentiating ES cells phenocopies the cardiac phenotype of Scl-null cells, supporting a functional interaction between SCL and a critical repressive chromatin remodeling complex. Altogether, these data unveil the establishment of a repressive environment in mesodermal progenitors by a hematopoietic-specific transcriptional regulator. This leads to restriction of expression of regulators of alternative fates and uncompromised commitment towards a hematopoietic identity.
2018-12-27 | GSE104844 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the molecular basis of cell fate decision is critical to shed light onto biological processes supporting tissue formation. In particular, whether lineage-fated cells derive from multi-primed progenitors and need to establish active fate restriction mechanisms to engage in a differentiation pathway is still matter of debate. To characterise the mechanisms underlying specification of blood-fated cells from mesodermal precursors, we studied the transcriptional activity of the key hematopoietic regulator SCL/TAL1. Scl-null mouse embryos die at embryonic day E9.5 from absence of blood formation, and exhibit mis-specification of mesodermal cells into cardiomyocytes, thus offering an excellent entry point for mechanistic studies of fate determination. Using high-throughput assays from mouse ES cell-derived mesodermal cells, we showed that, in parallel with activating the blood program and repressing the cardiac and paraxial programs, SCL strongly activates expression of repressors, such as ETO2 (known partner of SCL) and RYBP (member of Polycomb repressive complex PRC1). ETO2’s association with chromatin reflects SCL’s overall genomic binding, pointing to ETO2’s modulatory, rather than purely repressive, transcriptional activities. In contrast, SCL/RYBP chromatin co-occupancy is preferentially enriched at genes normally repressed in blood-fated cells and involved in early developmental processes and alternative lineages, highlighting a relationship between SCL and RYBP/PRC1 in repressive processes. Remarkably, SCL is critical for maintaining high levels of PRC1-associated repressive histone mark H2AK119ub genome-wide. It is also required for maximal levels of repressive mark H3K27me3 on genes normally repressed. Finally, Rybp knock-down in differentiating ES cells phenocopies the cardiac phenotype of Scl-null cells, supporting a functional interaction between SCL and a critical repressive chromatin remodeling complex. Altogether, these data unveil the establishment of a repressive environment in mesodermal progenitors by a hematopoietic-specific transcriptional regulator. This leads to restriction of expression of regulators of alternative fates and uncompromised commitment towards a hematopoietic identity.
2018-12-27 | GSE104846 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the molecular basis of cell fate decision is critical to shed light onto biological processes supporting tissue formation. In particular, whether lineage-fated cells derive from multi-primed progenitors and need to establish active fate restriction mechanisms to engage in a differentiation pathway is still matter of debate. To characterise the mechanisms underlying specification of blood-fated cells from mesodermal precursors, we studied the transcriptional activity of the key hematopoietic regulator SCL/TAL1. Scl-null mouse embryos die at embryonic day E9.5 from absence of blood formation, and exhibit mis-specification of mesodermal cells into cardiomyocytes, thus offering an excellent entry point for mechanistic studies of fate determination. Using high-throughput assays from mouse ES cell-derived mesodermal cells, we showed that, in parallel with activating the blood program and repressing the cardiac and paraxial programs, SCL strongly activates expression of repressors, such as ETO2 (known partner of SCL) and RYBP (member of Polycomb repressive complex PRC1). ETO2’s association with chromatin reflects SCL’s overall genomic binding, pointing to ETO2’s modulatory, rather than purely repressive, transcriptional activities. In contrast, SCL/RYBP chromatin co-occupancy is preferentially enriched at genes normally repressed in blood-fated cells and involved in early developmental processes and alternative lineages, highlighting a relationship between SCL and RYBP/PRC1 in repressive processes. Remarkably, SCL is critical for maintaining high levels of PRC1-associated repressive histone mark H2AK119ub genome-wide. It is also required for maximal levels of repressive mark H3K27me3 on genes normally repressed. Finally, Rybp knock-down in differentiating ES cells phenocopies the cardiac phenotype of Scl-null cells, supporting a functional interaction between SCL and a critical repressive chromatin remodeling complex. Altogether, these data unveil the establishment of a repressive environment in mesodermal progenitors by a hematopoietic-specific transcriptional regulator. This leads to restriction of expression of regulators of alternative fates and uncompromised commitment towards a hematopoietic identity.
2018-12-27 | GSE104834 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the molecular basis of cell fate decision is critical to shed light onto biological processes supporting tissue formation. In particular, whether lineage-fated cells derive from multi-primed progenitors and need to establish active fate restriction mechanisms to engage in a differentiation pathway is still matter of debate. To characterise the mechanisms underlying specification of blood-fated cells from mesodermal precursors, we studied the transcriptional activity of the key hematopoietic regulator SCL/TAL1. Scl-null mouse embryos die at embryonic day E9.5 from absence of blood formation, and exhibit mis-specification of mesodermal cells into cardiomyocytes, thus offering an excellent entry point for mechanistic studies of fate determination. Using high-throughput assays from mouse ES cell-derived mesodermal cells, we showed that, in parallel with activating the blood program and repressing the cardiac and paraxial programs, SCL strongly activates expression of repressors, such as ETO2 (known partner of SCL) and RYBP (member of Polycomb repressive complex PRC1). ETO2’s association with chromatin reflects SCL’s overall genomic binding, pointing to ETO2’s modulatory, rather than purely repressive, transcriptional activities. In contrast, SCL/RYBP chromatin co-occupancy is preferentially enriched at genes normally repressed in blood-fated cells and involved in early developmental processes and alternative lineages, highlighting a relationship between SCL and RYBP/PRC1 in repressive processes. Remarkably, SCL is critical for maintaining high levels of PRC1-associated repressive histone mark H2AK119ub genome-wide. It is also required for maximal levels of repressive mark H3K27me3 on genes normally repressed. Finally, Rybp knock-down in differentiating ES cells phenocopies the cardiac phenotype of Scl-null cells, supporting a functional interaction between SCL and a critical repressive chromatin remodeling complex. Altogether, these data unveil the establishment of a repressive environment in mesodermal progenitors by a hematopoietic-specific transcriptional regulator. This leads to restriction of expression of regulators of alternative fates and uncompromised commitment towards a hematopoietic identity.
2018-12-27 | GSE104845 | GEO
Project description:SCL establishes a global repressive environment and cooperates with Polycomb RYBP-PRC1 to suppress alternative lineages in blood-fated cells
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Project description:SCL establishes a global repressive environment and cooperates with Polycomb RYBP-PRC1 to suppress alternative lineages in blood-fated cells [SCL ChIP-seq]
| PRJNA413975 | ENA
Project description:SCL establishes a global repressive environment and cooperates with Polycomb RYBP-PRC1 to suppress alternative lineages in blood-fated cells [RYBP ChIP-seq]
| PRJNA413967 | ENA
Project description:SCL establishes a global repressive environment and cooperates with Polycomb RYBP-PRC1 to suppress alternative lineages in blood-fated cells [RNA-seq]
| PRJNA413958 | ENA