Project description:Determination of accessible chromatin regions in the 8-cell stage mouse embryo after Suv39h2 knockdown The study aimed to address a potential function of H3K9me3 in early mouse development by assessing its impact on chromatin compaction. The histone methyltransferase responsible for de novo H3K9me3 at fertilization Suv39h2, was knocked down by microinjection of dsRNA targeting Suv39h2 in the early zygote. Embryos were then cultured until the 8-cell stage of development. They were then fixed and chromatin compaction was assessed by NicE-seq in pools of 10 8-cell stage embryos.
Project description:The placenta is constructed through the orchestration of trophoblast stem (TS) cell expansion and differentiation along a multi-lineage pathway. Dynamic regulation of histone H3K9 methylation is pivotal to cell differentiation for many cell lineages, but little is known about its involvement in trophoblast development. Among the twelve-known histone H3K9 methyltransferases, only SUV39H2 exhibited robust differential expression in stem versus differentiated rat TS cells. SUV39H2 transcript and protein expression were high in the stem state and rapidly declined as TS cells differentiated. Disruption of SUV39H2 expression in TS cells led to prominent phenotypic changes. Suv39h2-specific shRNA knockdown resulted in an arrest in TS cell proliferation and activation of trophoblast cell differentiation. These observations were reinforced by flow cytometry and transcript profiling. Histone H3K9 methylation status at specific loci exhibiting differentiation-dependent gene expression were regulated by SUV39H2 and also represented sites for SUV39H2 occupancy. Analyses of SUV39H2 on ex vivo rat blastocyst development supported its role in regulating TS cell expansion and differentiation. Finally, we identified SUV39H2 as a downstream target of CDX2, a master regulator of trophoblast lineage development. In summary, our findings indicate that SUV39H2 contributes to the maintenance of the TS cell stem state and restrains trophoblast cell differentiation and thus serves as a contributor to the epigenetic regulation of hemochorial placental development.
Project description:Knockdown of mutant and/or wild-type SF3B1 in MEL202 cell line by Degron knock-in, followed by RNA-seq, to identify splicing events governed by mutant SF3B1. Control: parental MEL202 cell line. Experiments: mutant-SF3B1 knockdown; wildtype-SF3B1 knockdown; mutant SF3B1 knockout. Treatments: each of these four conditions plus and minus shld.
Project description:To examine the molecular phenotype of Suv39h2-deficits during early neurodevelopment, transcriptome analysis in the E11.5 brain of Suv39h2-deficient mouse and wild-type littermates were performed. The Suv39h2 mutation was made using CRISPR/Cas9n-mediated genome editing
