Genome-wide disclosure of the Nkx2.2 targets in oligodendrocytes and their progenitor cells suggests several novel target genes
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE73921 | GEO | 2019/11/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:The Nkx2.2 transcription factor contributes to regulate the timing of myelination in the CNS. Still, information about the regulon of Nkx2.2 in oligodendrocytes (Ols) and their progenitor cells (OPCs) is restricted to a few genes. Therefore we aimed to identify the entire regulon of Nkx2.2. We performed transcript profiling of postnatal Nkx2.2-/- mice, investigated the expression of selected transcripts in Ol lineage cells after siRNA induced Nkx2.2 knock-down, and identified the genome-wide active Nkx2.2 binding sites in murine OPCs and Ols by use of ChIP-sequencing technique. Thereby we have found 521 genes with active Nkx2.2 binding sites within 10,000 bp of their gene loci that furthermore are differently expressed in absence or lower expression of Nkx2.2. Functionally, the target genes are associated with mitosis, migration stop, protein transport, lipid metabolism, mitochondrial biogenesis, formation of Ca2+ waves, and WNT signalling. Furthermore, motif discovery techniques and tests for overlaps between sequencing reads suggest that MYRF, OLIG2, SOX10, and TCF3 interact or compete with Nkx2.2 in OPCs/Ols. However, the activator versus repressor activity of Nkx2.2 does not seem to depend on the potential interaction with either of the transcription factors. Test for overlaps with sites of specific histone 3 modifications show that the Nkx2.2 binding sites are more frequently associated H3K4me3 and H3K27ac in genes to which Nkx2.2 may act as an activator. This supports previous studies showing that Nkx2.2 acts in a HDAC1 dependent way. Together this provides new insight into how Nkx2.2 contributes to the timing of OPC differentiation and myelination in CNS.
2020-09-30 | GSE73664 | GEO
Project description:A Transcriptome Database for Astrocytes, Neurons, and Oligodendrocytes: A New Resource for Understanding Brain Development and Function Understanding the cell-cell interactions that control CNS development and function has long been limited by the lack of methods to cleanly separate astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes. Here we describe the first method for the isolation and purification of developing and mature astrocytes from mouse forebrain. This method takes advantage of the expression of S100β by astrocytes. We used fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) to isolate EGFP positive cells from transgenic mice that express EGFP under the control of an S100β promoter. By depletion of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes we obtained purified populations of neurons, while by panning with oligodendrocyte-specific antibodies we obtained purified populations of oligodendrocytes. Using GeneChip Arrays we then created a transcriptome database of the expression levels of over 20,000 genes by gene profiling these three main CNS neural cell types at postnatal ages day 1 to 30. This database provides the first global characterization of the genes expressed by mammalian astrocytes in vivo and is the first direct comparison between the astrocyte, neuron, and oligodendrocyte transcriptomes. We demonstrate that Aldh1L1, a highly expressed astrocyte gene, is a highly specific antigenic marker for astrocytes with a substantially broader, and therefore potentially more useful, pattern of astrocyte expression than the traditional astrocyte marker GFAP. This transcriptome database of acutely isolated and highly pure populations of astrocytes, neurons and oligodendrocytes provides a resource to the neuroscience community by providing improved cell type specific markers and for better understanding of neural development, function, and disease. We acutely purified mouse astrocytes from early postnatal ages (P1) to later postnatal ages (P30), when astrocyte differentiation is morphologically complete (Bushong et al., 2004), and acutely purified mouse OL-lineage cells from stages ranging from OPCs to newly differentiated OLs to myelinating OLs. We extracted RNA from each of these highly purified, acutely isolated cell types and used GeneChip Arrays to determine the expression levels of over 20,000 genes and construct a comprehensive database of cell type specific gene expression in the mouse forebrain. Analysis of this database confirms cell type specific expression of many well characterized and functionally important genes. In addition, we have identified thousands of new cell type enriched genes, thereby providing important new information about astrocyte, OL, and neuron interactions, metabolism, development, and function. This database provides a comparison of the genome-wide transcriptional profiles of the main CNS cell types and is a resource to the neuroscience community for better understanding the development, physiology, and pathology of the CNS. Keywords: Developmental CNS Cell type comparision FACS purification of astrocytes: Dissociated forebrains from S100β-EGFP mice were resuspended in panning buffer (DBPS containing 0.02% BSA and 12.5 U/ml DNase) and sequentially incubated on the following panning plates: secondary antibody only plate to deplete microglia, O4 plate to deplete OLs, PDGFRα plate to deplete OPCs, and a second O4 plate to deplete any remaining OLs. This procedure was sufficient to deplete all OL-lineage cells from animals P8 and younger, however, in older animals that had begun to myelinate, additional depletion of OLs and myelin debris was accomplished as follows. The nonadherent cells from the last O4 dish were harvested by centrifugation, and the cells were resuspended in panning buffer containing GalC, MOG, and O1 supernatant and incubated for 15 minutes at room temperature. The cell suspension was washed and then resuspended in panning buffer containing 20 μg donkey anti-mouse APC for 15 minutes. The cells were washed and resuspended in panning buffer containing propidium iodide (PI). EGFP+ astrocytes were then purified by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS). Dead cells were gated out using high PI staining and forward light scatter. Astrocytes were identified based on high EGFP fluorescence and negative APC fluorescence from indirect immunostaining for OL markers GalC, MOG, and O1. Cells were sorted twice and routinely yielded >99.5% purity based on reanalysis of double sorted cells.; FACS purification of neurons: EGFP- cells were the remaining forebrain cells after microglia, OLs, and astrocytes had been removed, and were primarily composed of neurons, and to a lesser extent, endothelial cells (we estimate < 4% endothelial cells at P7 and < 20% endothelial cells at P17). EGFP- cells from S100β-EGFP dissociated forebrain were FACS purified in parallel with astrocyte purification and were sorted based on their negative EGFP fluorescence immunofluorescence. Cells were sorted twice and routinely yielded >99.9% purity. In independent preparations, the EGFP- cell population was additionally depleted of endothelial cells and pericytes by sequentially labeling with biotin-BSL1 lectin and streptavidin-APC while also labeling for OL markers as described above. Cells were sorted twice and routinely yielded >99.9% purity.; Panning purification of oligodendrocyte lineage cells: Dissociated mouse forebrains were resuspended in panning buffer. In order to deplete microglia, the single-cell suspension was sequentially panned on four BSL1 panning plates. The cell suspension was then sequentially incubated on two PDGFRα plates (to purify and deplete OPCs), one A2B5 plate (to deplete any remaining OPCs), two MOG plates (to purify and deplete myelinating OLs), and one GalC plate (to purify the remaining PDGFRα-, MOG-, OLs). The adherent cells on the first PDGFRα, MOG, and GalC plates were washed to remove all antigen-negative nonadherent cells. The cells were then lysed while still attached to the panning plate with Qiagen RLT lysis buffer, and total RNA was purified. Purified OPCs were >95% NG2 positive and 0% MOG positive. Purified Myelin OLs were 100% MOG positive, >95% MBP positive, and 0% NG2 positive. Purified GalC OLs depleted of OPCs and Myelin OLs were <10% MOG positive and ~50% weakly NG2 positive, a reflection of their recent development as early OLs.; Data normalization and analysis: Raw image files were processed using Affymetrix GCOS and the MAS 5.0 algorithm. Intensity data was normalized per chip to a target intensity TGT value of 500, and expression data and absent/present calls for individual probe sets were determined. Gene expression values were normalized and modeled across arrays using the dChip software package with invariant-set normalization and a PM model. (www.dchip.org, Li and Wong, 2001). The 29 samples were grouped into 9 sample types: Astros P7-P8, Astros P17, Astros P17-gray matter (P17g), Neurons P7, Neurons P17, Neurons-endothelial cell depleted (P7n, P17n), OPCs, GalC-OLs, and MOG-OLs. Gene filtering was performed to select probe sets that were consistently expressed in at least one cell type, where consistently expressed was defined as being called present and having a MAS 5.0 intensity level greater than 200 in at least two-thirds of the samples in the cell type. We identified 20,932 of the 45,037 probe sets that were consistently expressed in at least one of the nine cell types. The Significance Analysis of Microarrays (SAM) method (Tusher et al., 2001) was used to determine genes that were significantly differentially expressed between different cell types (see Supplemental Table S2 for SAM cell type groupings). Clustering was performed using the hclust method with complete linkage in R. Expression values were transformed for clustering by computing a mean expression value for the gene using those samples in the corresponding SAM statistical analysis, and then subtracting the mean from expression intensities. In order to preserve the log2 scale of the data, unless otherwise indicated, no normalization by variance was performed. Plots were created using the gplots package in R. The Bioconductor software package (Gentleman et al., 2004) was used throughout the expression analyses. Functional analyses were performed through the use of Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (Ingenuity® Systems, www.ingenuity.com).
2007-12-30 | E-GEOD-9566 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The differentiation of oligodendroglia from oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) to complex and extensive myelinating oligodendrocytes (OLs) is a multistep process that involves largescale morphological changes with significant strain on the cytoskeleton. While key chromatin and transcriptional regulators of differentiation have been identified, their target genes responsible for the morphological changes occurring during OL myelination are still largely unknown. Here, we show that the regulator of focal adhesion, Tensin3 (Tns3), is a direct target gene of Olig2, Chd7, and Chd8, transcriptional regulators of OL differentiation. Tns3 is transiently upregulated and localized to cell processes of immature OLs, together with integrin-b1, a key mediator of survival at this transient stage. Constitutive Tns3 loss-of-function leads to reduced viability in mouse and humans, with surviving knockout mice still expressing Tns3 in oligodendroglia. Acute deletion of Tns3 in vivo, either in postnatal neural stem cells (NSCs) or in OPCs, leads to a two-fold reduction in OL numbers. We find that the transient upregulation of Tns3 is required to protect differentiating OPCs and immature OLs from cell death by preventing the upregulation of p53, a key regulator of apoptosis. Altogether, our findings reveal a specific time window during which transcriptional upregulation of Tns3 in immature OLs is required for OL differentiation likely by mediating integrin-b1 survival signaling to the actin cytoskeleton as OL undergo the large morphological changes required for their terminal differentiation.
2022-09-01 | GSE203294 | GEO
Project description:The differentiation of oligodendroglia from oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) to complex and extensive myelinating oligodendrocytes (OLs) is a multistep process that involves largescale morphological changes with significant strain on the cytoskeleton. While key chromatin and transcriptional regulators of differentiation have been identified, their target genes responsible for the morphological changes occurring during OL myelination are still largely unknown. Here, we show that the regulator of focal adhesion, Tensin3 (Tns3), is a direct target gene of Olig2, Chd7, and Chd8, transcriptional regulators of OL differentiation. Tns3 is transiently upregulated and localized to cell processes of immature OLs, together with integrin-b1, a key mediator of survival at this transient stage. Constitutive Tns3 loss-of-function leads to reduced viability in mouse and humans, with surviving knockout mice still expressing Tns3 in oligodendroglia. Acute deletion of Tns3 in vivo, either in postnatal neural stem cells (NSCs) or in OPCs, leads to a two-fold reduction in OL numbers. We find that the transient upregulation of Tns3 is required to protect differentiating OPCs and immature OLs from cell death by preventing the upregulation of p53, a key regulator of apoptosis. Altogether, our findings reveal a specific time window during which transcriptional upregulation of Tns3 in immature OLs is required for OL differentiation likely by mediating integrin-b1 survival signaling to the actin cytoskeleton as OL undergo the large morphological changes required for their terminal differentiation.
2022-09-01 | GSE203293 | GEO
Project description:Olig2 is a crucial factor in the specification and differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells that give rise to mature, myelin-producing OLs in the developing and postnatal CNS; however, its role in adulthood is less well understood. To investigate the role Olig2 plays in regulating gene expression in the adult oligodendrocyte lineage in a physiologically-relevant context, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by next generation sequencing analysis using whole spinal cord tissue harvested from adult mice. We found that many of the Olig2-bound sites were associated with genes with biological processes corresponding to myelination and ensheathment, as well as cell cycle and cytoskeletal regulation, suggesting Olig2 continues to play a critical role in processes related to OL differentiation and myelination well into adulthood.
2017-10-20 | GSE103324 | GEO
Project description:Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) constitute the main proliferative cells in the adult brain, and deregulation of OPC proliferation-differentiation balance results in either glioma formation or defective adaptive (re)myelination. OPC differentiation requires significant genetic reprogramming implicating chromatin remodeling. Here, we report on uncharacterized functions of the chromatin remodelers Chd7 and Chd8 in OPCs. Their OPC-chromatin-binding profile combined with transcriptome and open-chromatin analysis of Chd7-deleted OPCs, demonstrates that Chd7 controls OPC differentiation through chromatin-opening and transcriptional activation of key regulators such as Sox10, Nkx2.2 and Gpr17. Chd7 is however dispensable for oligodendrocyte stage progression, consistent with Chd8 compensatory function, as suggested by its chromatin binding profile. Furthermore, Chd7 protects non-proliferative OPCs from apoptosis by chromatin-closing and transcriptional repression of p53. Mutations in CHD7 and CHD8 are associated with developmental disorders, such as CHARGE syndrome and autism respectively, and our results offer new avenues to understand and modulate their functions in disease.
2018-08-29 | GSE116598 | GEO
Project description:microRNA expression profiles in two stage-specific populations of oligodendrocytes: OPCs expressing the A2B5 ganglioside (A2B5+ cells) and OLs that are positive for the galactocerebroside marker (GalC+ cells). Cells were isolated postnatal day 7.
2008-11-11 | E-MEXP-1589 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Unambiguous consolidation of cell identity relies on transcription factors (TFs) acting to suppress alternative lineages, yet few general principles have emerged explaining how repressors manipulate chromatin landscapes to achieve stable gene silencing, especially in instances when these TFs are only temporarily activated. The TF Nkx2.2 is transiently expressed in CNS progenitors yet permanently abrogates somatic motor neuron (sMN) differentiation via interactions with Groucho (Grg) co-repressors. We show that Nkx2.2 inhibits regulatory elements of progenitor and postmitotic sMN transcripts by utilizing Grg to evict co-activators. Surprisingly, co-activator eviction was accomplished using Grg proteins already present at enhancers, rather than through the additional recruitment of Grg or other co-repressors. Nkx2.2-mediated enhancer silencing also led to the loss of H3K27ac modifications from H3K27me3+H3K27ac+ proximal promoters of key sMN genes, facilitating persistent repression of the sMN progenitor program after Nkx2.2 downregulation. These results imply that active loci are poised for suppression, and repressor binding mediates the transition through co-activator displacement.
2023-07-24 | GSE155229 | GEO
Project description:Members of the Myt (myelin transcription factor) family have been implicated in neuronal development. However, their in vivo roles in OL lineage development have not been systematically investigated. Here, we identified Myt1 transcription factor as a crucial regulator of oligodendrocyte differentiation in the developing central nervous system. Conventional knockout of Myt1 causes a remarkable delay in the initiation of OL differentiation, without affecting the generation and proliferation of OPCs. Conversely, hyperactivation of Myt1 induces precocious OL differentiation both in vitro and in vivo. Using a combination of RNA-seq and ChIP-seq analyses, we identified Nkx2.2 as a key target of Myt1 to switch on the OL differentiation program. Mechanistically, specific binding of Myt1 in the Nkx2.2 gene loci inhibits the nucleosomal histone deacetylation via hindering the HDAC1 repressor complex integrity and reducing the deacetylation activity of HDAC1. Additionally, we demonstrated that Myt1 functions downstream of Notch signaling pathway in controlling the timing of OL differentiation. Collectively, our data demonstrate that Myt1 is a major regulator of OL differentiation and provide insight into the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms under OL development. Myt1 is, therefore, a promising therapeutic target for enhancing the OL differentiation and myelination/remyelination during development or after demyelination insults.
2024-10-01 | GSE253256 | GEO
Project description:Members of the Myt (myelin transcription factor) family have been implicated in neuronal development. However, their in vivo roles in OL lineage development have not been systematically investigated. Here, we identified Myt1 transcription factor as a crucial regulator of oligodendrocyte differentiation in the developing central nervous system. Conventional knockout of Myt1 causes a remarkable delay in the initiation of OL differentiation, without affecting the generation and proliferation of OPCs. Conversely, hyperactivation of Myt1 induces precocious OL differentiation both in vitro and in vivo. Using a combination of RNA-seq and ChIP-seq analyses, we identified Nkx2.2 as a key target of Myt1 to switch on the OL differentiation program. Mechanistically, specific binding of Myt1 in the Nkx2.2 gene loci inhibits the nucleosomal histone deacetylation via hindering the HDAC1 repressor complex integrity and reducing the deacetylation activity of HDAC1. Additionally, we demonstrated that Myt1 functions downstream of Notch signaling pathway in controlling the timing of OL differentiation. Collectively, our data demonstrate that Myt1 is a major regulator of OL differentiation and provide insight into the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms under OL development. Myt1 is, therefore, a promising therapeutic target for enhancing the OL differentiation and myelination/remyelination during development or after demyelination insults.
2024-10-01 | GSE253255 | GEO