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Subsets of visceral adipose tissue nuclei with discrete levels of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine

ABSTRACT: We explored the hypothesis that adipose tissue contains epigenetically distinct subpopulations of adipocytes that are differentially potentiated to record cellular memories of their environment. Adipocytes are large, fragile, and technically difficult to efficiently isolate and fractionate. We developed fluorescence nuclear cytometry (FNC) and fluorescence activated nuclear sorting (FANS) of cellular nuclei from Sus scrofa visceral adipose tissue (SsVAT) using the levels of the pan-adipocyte protein, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma-2 (PPARg2) to distinguish PPARg2-Positive nuclei from PPARg2-Neg (negative) leukocyte, endothelial, and adipocyte progenitor cell nuclei. PPARg2-Postive VAT nuclei showed 2- to 50-fold higher levels of transcripts encoding most of the chromatin-remodeling factors assayed regulating the methylation of histones and DNA cytosine (e.g., DNMT1, DNMT3A, TET2, TET3, KMT2C, SETDB1, PAXP1, ARID1A, KMT2C, JMJD6, CARM1/PRMT4, PRMT5). PPARg2-Positive nuclei have a large decondensed chromatin structure. TAB-seq demonstrated 5´-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) levels were remarkably dynamic in the gene body of PPARg2-Positive nuclei, dropping 3.8-fold from the highest quintile of expressed genes to the lowest.

ORGANISM(S): Sus scrofa

PROVIDER: GSE73684 | GEO | 2016/07/20

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA297667

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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