Project description:Neurons are central to lifelong learning and memory, but ageing disrupts their morphology and function, leading to cognitive decline. Although epigenetic mechanisms are known to play crucial roles in learning and memory, neuron-specific genome-wide epigenetic maps into old age remain scarce, often being limited to whole-brain homogenates and confounded by glial cells. Here, we mapped H3K4me3, H3K27ac, and H3K27me3 in mouse neurons across their lifespan. This revealed stable H3K4me3 and global losses of H3K27ac and H3K27me3 into old age. We observed patterns of synaptic function gene deactivation, regulated through the loss of the active mark H3K27ac, but not H3K4me3. Alongside this, embryonic development loci lost repressive H3K27me3 in old age. This suggests a loss of a highly refined neuronal cellular identity linked to global chromatin reconfigu-ration. Collectively, these findings indicate a key role for epigenetic regulation in neurons that is inextricably linked with ageing.
Project description:CUT&RUN-seq of H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K27ac in mouse ESCs carrying a homozygous point mutation in the catalytic domain of mll2[Y2602A]. CUT&RUN was performed according to Skene & Henikoff, 2017 and purified DNA was using for library preparation with NEBNext DNA Ultra II kit (NEB E7645S; input: 5 ng of DNA). Libraries were multiplexed and sequenced on a NextSeq500 (Paired-End; read length 40). Each sample is present in 3 biological replicates.
Project description:To study the effect of rs1192691 on histone modifications, we performed H3K27ac, H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K9me3 in SKOV3(AA) and SKOV3(CC).
Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation DNA-sequencing (ChIP-seq) for histone modifications, H3K27ac, H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K9me3 in H460 (T/T) and H460 (C/C) cells
Project description:To gain a deeper insight into how crotonate regulates embryonic neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs) proliferation and differentiation, ChIP-seq was performed to analyze the genome-wide changes of H3K4me3, H3K27ac and H3K27me3 stimulated with crotonate in E13.5 NSPCs.