Mapping the epigenomic and transcriptomic interplay during memory formation and recall in the hippocampal engram ensemble
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ABSTRACT: Purpose: we utilized a mouse model that permanently labels neurons activated throughout a specific experience to decipher the interplay between chromatin accessibility, 3D-chromatin architecture and transcriptional changes across different memory phases. Non activated (basal) and activated neurons during memory encoding (early), consolidation (late) and recall (reactivated) were sorted and subjected to nuclear RNA sequencing (nRNA-seq) to determine gene expression, ATAC-seq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing) to assess chromatin accessibility, chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) to identify global 3D -genome architecture and promoter capture Hi-C to identify the long range promoter-enhancer interactions. Results: We have found that during each memory phase, the same promoters interact more frequently with a distinct subset of enhancers (i.e. unique). We also identified a smaller subset of interactions in which the promoters were interacting with the same enhancers across different memory phases (i.e. common). Furthermore, Reactivated neurons presented significantly stronger interaction scores (as calculated by CHiCAGO). Hence, although the number of unique interactions was similar across early, late and reactivated states, stronger interaction scores indicate that specific promoter- enhancer interactions occur more frequently during memory recall.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE152955 | GEO | 2020/06/23
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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