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Identification of transcription termination defects at DNA hypomethylated transcription termination sites in DNA methyltransferase 3a-deficient vertebrates [RNA-Seq]

ABSTRACT: CpG methylation in genomic DNA is well known as a repressive epigenetic marker in eukaryotic transcription, and hypermethylation of the promoter region is correlated with silencing of gene expression. In contrast to the promoter region, the function of DNA methylation at transcription termination remains to be elucidated. A recent study has revealed that mouse DNA methyltransferase 3a (Dnmt3a) mainly functions in de novo methylation in the promoter and gene body regions (including transcription termination sites (TTSs)) during development. To investigate the relationship between DNA methylation overlapping the TTSs and transcription termination, we employed two strategies: informatic analysis using already deposited datasets of Dnmt3a-/- mouse cells and the zebrafish model system. Bioinformatic analysis using methylome and transcriptome data showed that hypomethylated differentially methylated regions overlapping the TTSs were associated with increased transcript counts and chimeric transcripts downstream of TTSs in Dnmt3a-/- Agouti-related protein neurons, but not in Dnmt3a-/- ES cells and MEFs. We experimentally detected increased read-through and chimeric transcripts downstream of hypomethylated TTSs in zebrafish maternal-zygotic Dnmt3aa-/- mutants. This study is the first to identify transcription termination defects in DNA hypomethylated TTSs in Dnmt3a-/- vertebrates.

ORGANISM(S): Danio rerio

PROVIDER: GSE178688 | GEO | 2022/06/14

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Since DNMT3A is a de novo DNA methyltransferase, transcriptional differences in WT versus Dnmt3a-/- HSCs upon infection suggest a possible role for epigenetic regulation in the HSC transcriptional response to inflammation. Therefore, we wanted to investigate if differences in stress and presence of Dnmt3a affect the methylome overall, and specific IFNg responses genes. 100000 LT-HSCs (LK CD150+ CD48- were sorted into lysis buffer from the pools of naive or 1-month (M. avium) infected WT/ Dnmt3-/-_x0001_ mice (n = 7-8 per group). Around 300 ng of DNA per group was extracted with AllPrep DNA/RNA Mini Kit. NEBNext Ultra II DNA library prep kit was used for library preparation. Bisulfite conversion step was added after ‘‘methylated’’ adaptor ligation and USER excision. Then, methylated adaptor ligated DNA fragment was treated with bisulfite conversion using EZ DNA methylationlightning kit. These modified DNA fragments were then amplified with index primers with Kapa HiFi urasil+ specialized polymerase for bisulfite converted DNA. For WGBS library sequencing, 150-high output kit from illumine was used. Samples (400 million reads/ sample (15-20X coverage)) were run in NovaSeq S1 FC (2, lanes 1,600 Million reads). Global methylation of Dnmt3a-/- cells was more divergent upon infection compared to WT. There were vastly more hyper- and hypomethylated regions in infected versus naive Dnmt3a-/- HSCs compared to WT. Among the altered regions, both WT and Dnmt3a-/- HSCs showed slightly more hypomethylated than hypermethylated regions, although changes in both directions were present. In the WT background, regions of hyper- and hypomethylation were mostly restricted to CpG islands. By contrast, highly significant differences in hypomethylation were found in the Dnmt3a-/- HSCs in CpG islands, shores, enhancers, and promoters DNMT3A is highly active in HSCs during infection and that the loss of DNMT3A function results in significant global changes in methylation, including both hyper- and hypomethylation, in genome regions that likely affect gene transcription. we examined the methylation of Batf2, Jun, and Fos. All 3 of these prodifferentiation genes showed increased methylation in the promoter region in the Dnmt3a-/- background as compared to the WT background. Hypermethylation of these promoter regions is consistent with their transcriptional repression.

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Identification of transcription termination defects at DNA hypomethylated transcription termination sites in DNA methyltransferase 3a-deficient vertebrates [RNA-Seq]

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