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Project description:Genomic imprinting is regulated by parental-specific DNA methylation of imprinting control regions (ICRs). Despite an identical DNA sequence, ICRs can exist in two distinct epigenetic states that are memorized throughout unlimited cell divisions and reset during germline formation. Here, we systematically study the genetic and epigenetic determinants of this epigenetic bistability. By iterative integration of ICRs and related DNA sequences to an ectopic location in the mouse genome, we first identify the DNA sequence features required for maintenance of epigenetic states in embryonic stem cells. The autonomous regulatory properties of ICRs further enabled us to create DNA-methylation-sensitive reporters and to screen for key components involved in regulating their epigenetic memory. Besides DNMT1, UHRF1 and ZFP57, we identify factors that prevent switching from methylated to unmethylated states and show that two of these candidates, ATF7IP and ZMYM2, are important for the stability of DNA and H3K9 methylation at ICRs in embryonic stem cells.
| S-EPMC9649441 | biostudies-literature
Project description:DNA methylation is essential for embryonic development and implicated in the regulation of genomic imprinting. Genomic imprinting is established in the germline through parent-specific methylation of distinct cis-regulatory DNA sequences, called imprinting control regions (ICRs). Which factors bind to the opposing chromatin states at ICRs within the same nuclear environment was not systematically addressed. By using a proximity labelling approach with the methylation sensitive transcription factor ZFP57, we identified ATF7IP and other major components of the epigenetic maintenance machinery at ICRs.
2023-03-10 | PXD034918 | Pride
Project description:DNA sequence and chromatin modifiers determine epigenetic bistability at imprinting control regions
| PRJNA736324 | ENA
Project description:Genomic imprinting is regulated by parental-specific epigenetic marks that differentiate between maternal and paternal chromosomes. Despite identical DNA sequence, the presence or absence of DNA methylation leads to the establishment of two distinct epigenetic states at Imprinting Control Regions (ICR). Here we combine targeted epigenome engineering to generate ectopic loci in the mouse embryonic stem cell genome that recapitulate the epigenetic properties of ICRs. We describe these ectopic ICRs as strong cis-regulatory sequences that can adopt and memorise one of two opposing epigenetic states, dependent of pre-imposed DNA methylation. This bistability is unique to ICRs and enabled us to systematically study the genetic and epigenetic determinants required for creating and maintaining the observed states. Through sequence manipulation we show that the ICR DNA sequence confers autonomy of ICRs and is required for creating epigenetic bistability. Genetic screens using DNA-methylation-sensitive reporters identify key components involved in regulating maintenance of epigenetic states. Besides DNMT1, UHRF1 and ZFP57, we identify novel factors that prevent switching between methylated and unmethylated states and validate two of these candidates, ATF7IP and ZMYM2, to be important for epigenetic memory at ICRs. In summary we show that the DNA sequence of ICRs provides the prerequisite for establishment of two distinct epigenetic states, while DNA and histone modifications ensure their stable propagation.
2022-07-20 | GSE203404 | GEO
Project description:Genomic imprinting is regulated by parental-specific epigenetic marks that differentiate between maternal and paternal chromosomes. Despite identical DNA sequence, the presence or absence of DNA methylation leads to the establishment of two distinct epigenetic states at Imprinting Control Regions (ICR). Here we combine targeted epigenome engineering to generate ectopic loci in the mouse embryonic stem cell genome that recapitulate the epigenetic properties of ICRs. We describe these ectopic ICRs as strong cis-regulatory sequences that can adopt and memorise one of two opposing epigenetic states, dependent of pre-imposed DNA methylation. This bistability is unique to ICRs and enabled us to systematically study the genetic and epigenetic determinants required for creating and maintaining the observed states. Through sequence manipulation we show that the ICR DNA sequence confers autonomy of ICRs and is required for creating epigenetic bistability. Genetic screens using DNA-methylation-sensitive reporters identify key components involved in regulating maintenance of epigenetic states. Besides DNMT1, UHRF1 and ZFP57, we identify novel factors that prevent switching between methylated and unmethylated states and validate two of these candidates, ATF7IP and ZMYM2, to be important for epigenetic memory at ICRs. In summary we show that the DNA sequence of ICRs provides the prerequisite for establishment of two distinct epigenetic states, while DNA and histone modifications ensure their stable propagation.
2022-07-20 | GSE176460 | GEO
Project description:Genomic imprinting is regulated by parental-specific epigenetic marks that differentiate between maternal and paternal chromosomes. Despite identical DNA sequence, the presence or absence of DNA methylation leads to the establishment of two distinct epigenetic states at Imprinting Control Regions (ICR). Here we combine targeted epigenome engineering to generate ectopic loci in the mouse embryonic stem cell genome that recapitulate the epigenetic properties of ICRs. We describe these ectopic ICRs as strong cis-regulatory sequences that can adopt and memorise one of two opposing epigenetic states, dependent of pre-imposed DNA methylation. This bistability is unique to ICRs and enabled us to systematically study the genetic and epigenetic determinants required for creating and maintaining the observed states. Through sequence manipulation we show that the ICR DNA sequence confers autonomy of ICRs and is required for creating epigenetic bistability. Genetic screens using DNA-methylation-sensitive reporters identify key components involved in regulating maintenance of epigenetic states. Besides DNMT1, UHRF1 and ZFP57, we identify novel factors that prevent switching between methylated and unmethylated states and validate two of these candidates, ATF7IP and ZMYM2, to be important for epigenetic memory at ICRs. In summary we show that the DNA sequence of ICRs provides the prerequisite for establishment of two distinct epigenetic states, while DNA and histone modifications ensure their stable propagation.
2022-07-20 | GSE176459 | GEO
Project description:DNA sequence determines epigenetic bistability at imprinting control regions [WGBS]
| PRJNA839764 | ENA
Project description:DNA sequence determines epigenetic bistability at imprinting control regions [ChIP-Seq]
| PRJNA736332 | ENA
Project description:DNA sequence determines epigenetic bistability at imprinting control regions [BS-Seq]
| PRJNA736334 | ENA
Project description:Parental allele-specific expression of imprinted genes is mediated by imprinting control regions (ICRs) that are constitutively marked by DNA methylation imprints on the maternal or paternal allele. Mono-allelic DNA methylation is strictly required for the process of imprinting and has to be faithfully maintained during the entire life-span. While the regulation of DNA methylation itself is well understood, the mechanisms whereby the opposite allele remains unmethylated are unclear. Here, we show that in the mouse, at maternally methylated ICRs, the paternal allele, which is constitutively associated with H3K4me2/3, is marked by default by H3K27me3 when these ICRs are transcriptionally inactive, leading to the formation of a bivalent chromatin signature. Our data suggest that at ICRs, chromatin bivalency has a protective role by ensuring that DNA on the paternal allele remains unmethylated and protected against spurious and unscheduled gene expression. Moreover, they provide the proof of concept that, beside pluripotent cells, chromatin bivalency is the default state of transcriptionally inactive CpG island promoters, regardless of the developmental stage, thereby contributing to protect cell identity.
| S-EPMC4737186 | biostudies-literature