Project description:Temporal and spatial gene expression patterns are regulated by enhancer-specific histone modifications H3K4me1 and H3K27ac. To better understand age-dependent alteration of these enhancer marks, we analysed their genome-wide profiles and compared against changes in gene expression in the head tissues harvested from young Day 10 and D50 male Drosophila. The genome-wide binding patterns of H3K4me1 and H3K27ac remain highly similar (>85%) during ageing with marginally higher signals for both marks in older Day 50 flies. Signals were significantly higher in Day 50 flies near the transcription start sites for H3K4me1 whereas for H3K27ac, signals were significantly higher in Day 50 flies globally. Interestingly, analysis using MACS bdgdiff identified “x” H3K4me1 and “y” H3K27ac differential peaks that correlated with distinct sets of age-dependent differential expressed genes (DEG). Most of the H3K4me1 differential peaks (percentage of x) are located within the gene body of DEGs that are associated with RNA and metabolic processes. On the other hand, majority of differential H3K27ac peaks (percentage of y) are located 5 kb upstream of TSS of DEG enriched for various immune responses. Our results suggest that while both enhancer marks do not undergo significant global reconfiguration during aging, they are likely to be involved in activating independent sets of genes through distinct transcription activators.
Project description:In differentiated cells, aging is associated with hypermethylation of DNA regions enriched in repressive histone posttranslational modifications. However, the chromatin marks associated with changes in DNA methylation in adult stem cells during lifetime are still largely unknown. Here, DNA methylation profiling of mesenchymal stem cells obtained from individuals aged 2 to 92 identified 18735 hypermethylated and 45407 hypomethylated CpG sites associated with aging. As in differentiated cells, hypermethylated sequences were enriched in chromatin repressive marks. Most importantly, hypomethylated CpG sites were strongly enriched in the active chromatin mark H3K4me1 in stem and differentiated cells, suggesting this is a cell type-independent chromatin signature of DNA hypomethylation during aging. Analysis of scedasticity showed that interindividual variability of DNA methylation increased during aging in MSCs and differentiated cells, providing a new avenue for the identification of DNA methylation changes over time. DNA methylation profiling of genetically identical individuals showed that both the tendency of DNA methylation changes and scedasticity depended on non-genetic as well as genetic factors. Our results indicate that the dynamics of DNA methylation during aging depend on a complex mixture of factors that include the DNA sequence, cell type and chromatin context involved, and that, depending on the locus, the changes can be modulated by genetic and/or external factors. Total DNA isolated by standard procedures from peripheral blood of 24 samples obtained from 12 pairs of MZ twins aged 21 to 66.
Project description:In differentiated cells, aging is associated with hypermethylation of DNA regions enriched in repressive histone posttranslational modifications. However, the chromatin marks associated with changes in DNA methylation in adult stem cells during lifetime are still largely unknown. Here, DNA methylation profiling of mesenchymal stem cells obtained from individuals aged 2 to 92 identified 18735 hypermethylated and 45407 hypomethylated CpG sites associated with aging. As in differentiated cells, hypermethylated sequences were enriched in chromatin repressive marks. Most importantly, hypomethylated CpG sites were strongly enriched in the active chromatin mark H3K4me1 in stem and differentiated cells, suggesting this is a cell type-independent chromatin signature of DNA hypomethylation during aging. Analysis of scedasticity showed that interindividual variability of DNA methylation increased during aging in MSCs and differentiated cells, providing a new avenue for the identification of DNA methylation changes over time. DNA methylation profiling of genetically identical individuals showed that both the tendency of DNA methylation changes and scedasticity depended on non-genetic as well as genetic factors. Our results indicate that the dynamics of DNA methylation during aging depend on a complex mixture of factors that include the DNA sequence, cell type and chromatin context involved, and that, depending on the locus, the changes can be modulated by genetic and/or external factors. Total DNA isolated by standard procedures from human adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) obtained from 34 individuals aged 2 to 92
Project description:In differentiated cells, aging is associated with hypermethylation of DNA regions enriched in repressive histone posttranslational modifications. However, the chromatin marks associated with changes in DNA methylation in adult stem cells during lifetime are still largely unknown. Here, DNA methylation profiling of mesenchymal stem cells obtained from individuals aged 2 to 92 identified 18735 hypermethylated and 45407 hypomethylated CpG sites associated with aging. As in differentiated cells, hypermethylated sequences were enriched in chromatin repressive marks. Most importantly, hypomethylated CpG sites were strongly enriched in the active chromatin mark H3K4me1 in stem and differentiated cells, suggesting this is a cell type-independent chromatin signature of DNA hypomethylation during aging. Analysis of scedasticity showed that interindividual variability of DNA methylation increased during aging in MSCs and differentiated cells, providing a new avenue for the identification of DNA methylation changes over time. DNA methylation profiling of genetically identical individuals showed that both the tendency of DNA methylation changes and scedasticity depended on non-genetic as well as genetic factors. Our results indicate that the dynamics of DNA methylation during aging depend on a complex mixture of factors that include the DNA sequence, cell type and chromatin context involved, and that, depending on the locus, the changes can be modulated by genetic and/or external factors.
Project description:In differentiated cells, aging is associated with hypermethylation of DNA regions enriched in repressive histone posttranslational modifications. However, the chromatin marks associated with changes in DNA methylation in adult stem cells during lifetime are still largely unknown. Here, DNA methylation profiling of mesenchymal stem cells obtained from individuals aged 2 to 92 identified 18735 hypermethylated and 45407 hypomethylated CpG sites associated with aging. As in differentiated cells, hypermethylated sequences were enriched in chromatin repressive marks. Most importantly, hypomethylated CpG sites were strongly enriched in the active chromatin mark H3K4me1 in stem and differentiated cells, suggesting this is a cell type-independent chromatin signature of DNA hypomethylation during aging. Analysis of scedasticity showed that interindividual variability of DNA methylation increased during aging in MSCs and differentiated cells, providing a new avenue for the identification of DNA methylation changes over time. DNA methylation profiling of genetically identical individuals showed that both the tendency of DNA methylation changes and scedasticity depended on non-genetic as well as genetic factors. Our results indicate that the dynamics of DNA methylation during aging depend on a complex mixture of factors that include the DNA sequence, cell type and chromatin context involved, and that, depending on the locus, the changes can be modulated by genetic and/or external factors.
Project description:In the article "Fra-1 regulates its target genes via binding to remote enhancers without exerting major control on chromatin architecture in triple negative breast cancers" by Bejjani et al., we mapped epigenetic marks (H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K27ac), p300/CBP, PolII and CTCF to characterize the binding sites of Fra-1 and Fra-2 on MDA-MB-231 genome. Data for Fra-1 and Fra-2 ChIP-seq are available on GEO database, accession number GSE132098 (Tolza et al., 2019, MCR 17, 1999-2014)
Project description:Transcriptional regulation relies upon multiple nuclear processes among which histone modifications constitute a key component. To further decipher the nuclear changes resulting from TTC7A deficiency, we performed ChIP-Seq of H3K27ac and H3K27me3 histone marks associated with transcriptional activation and repression respectively.
Project description:ChIP-seq analyses were used to examine the effect of TFAM inhibition on mono-methylated H3K4 (H3K4me1) and acetylated H3K27 (H3K27ac), which are histone marks characteristic of enhancer activity. Our study revealed that c-JUN-mediated enhancer activation shapes the mitochondrial stress-associated secretory phenotype.