Programmed genomic instability regulates neural transdifferentiation of human brain microvascular pericytes [ATAC-Seq]
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ABSTRACT: The observation that human microvascular pericytes transdifferentiate into neurons provided an opportunity to explore the endogenous molecular basis for lineage reprogramming. Here, we show that abrupt destabilization of the higher-order chromatin topology that chaperones lineage memory of pericytes is driven by transient global transcriptional arrest. This leads within minutes to localized decompression of the repressed competing higher-order chromatin topology and expression of pro-neural genes. Transition to neural lineage is completed by probabilistic induction of R-loops in key myogenic loci upon re-initiation of RNA polymerase activity, leading to depletion of the myogenic transcriptome and emergence of the neurogenic transcriptome.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE187016 | GEO | 2021/11/04
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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