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Regulatory landscape of early embryos development revealed by parallel single-cell multi-omics sequencing [RNA-seq]

ABSTRACT: In mammals, drastic epigenomic reprogramming occurs during preimplantation development. However, the functional associations between different epigenetic layers and transcriptional regulation remains unclear, and to what extent, the dynamic epigenomics contribute to the lineage segregation remains to be elucidated. Here, we developed a single cell multi-omics sequencing technology, and provided the first single cell multi-comics map of chromatin accessibility, DNA methylation and RNA transcription during mouse preimplantation development.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE136714 | GEO | 2021/01/12

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Single-cell epigenome sequencing techniques have recently been developed. However, the combination of different layers of epigenome sequencing in an individual cell has not yet been achieved. Here, we developed a single-cell multi-omics sequencing technology (single-cell COOL-seq) that can analyze the chromatin state/nucleosome positioning, DNA methylation, copy number variation and ploidy simultaneously from the same individual mammalian cell. We used this method to analyze the reprogramming of the chromatin state and DNA methylation in mouse preimplantation embryos. We found that within < 12 h of fertilization, each individual cell undergoes global genome demethylation together with the rapid and global reprogramming of both maternal and paternal genomes to a highly opened chromatin state. This was followed by decreased openness after the late zygote stage. Furthermore, from the late zygote to the 4-cell stage, the residual DNA methylation is preferentially preserved on intergenic regions of the paternal alleles and intragenic regions of maternal alleles in each individual blastomere. However, chromatin accessibility is similar between paternal and maternal alleles in each individual cell from the late zygote to the blastocyst stage. The binding motifs of several pluripotency regulators are enriched at distal nucleosome depleted regions from as early as the 2-cell stage. This indicates that the cis-regulatory elements of such target genes have been primed to an open state from the 2-cell stage onward, long before pluripotency is eventually established in the ICM of the blastocyst. Genes may be classified into homogeneously open, homogeneously closed and divergent states based on the chromatin accessibility of their promoter regions among individual cells. This can be traced to step-wise transitions during preimplantation development. Our study offers the first single-cell and parental allele-specific analysis of the genome-scale chromatin state and DNA methylation dynamics at single-base resolution in early mouse embryos and provides new insights into the heterogeneous yet highly ordered features of epigenomic reprogramming during this process.

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Regulatory landscape of early embryos development revealed by parallel single-cell multi-omics sequencing [RNA-seq]

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