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5-hydroxymethylcytosine is associated with enhancers and gene bodies in human embryonic stem cells.

ABSTRACT: Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) was recently found to be abundantly present in certain cell types including embryonic stem cells. The function of 5hmC is poorly understood. Here we have generated a genome-wide map of 5hmC in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) by hydroxymethyl-DNA immunoprecipitation followed by massively parallel sequencing (hmeDIP-seq). We found that 5hmC is enriched over enhancers as well as gene bodies, suggesting a potential role of 5hmC in gene regulation. Consistent with localization of 5hmC at enhancers, 5hmC was significantly enriched in histone modifications associated with enhancers such as H3K4me1 and H3K27ac. 5hmC was enriched in other protein-DNA interaction sites such as OCT4 and NANOG binding sites. Furthermore we found that 5hmC regions tend to be GC-skewed (excess G over C on one strand of DNA). These findings suggest that 5hmC may be targeted to certain genomic regions based both on gene expression and sequence composition.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE27627 | GEO | 2011/06/13

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA138241

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Enhancers are developmentally-controlled transcriptional regulatory regions whose activities are modulated through histone modifications or histone variant deposition. Here, we show by genome-wide mapping that the newly discovered DNA modification 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is dynamically associated with transcription factor binding to distal regulatory sites during neural differentiation of mouse P19 cells as well as during adipocyte differentiation of mouse 3T3-L1 cells. Functional annotation reveals that regions gaining 5hmC are associated with genes expressed either in neural tissues when P19 cells undergo neural differentiation or in adipose tissue when 3T3-L1 cells undergo adipocyte differentiation. Furthermore, distal regions gaining 5hmC together with H3K4me2 and H3K27ac in P19 cells behave as differentiation-dependent transcriptional enhancers. Identified regions are enriched in motifs for transcription factors regulating specific cell fates like Meis1 in P19 cells and PPARgamma in 3T3-L1 cells. Accordingly, a fraction of hydroxymethylated Meis1 sites were associated with a dynamic engagement of the 5mC hydroxylase Tet1. In addition, kinetic studies of cytosine hydroxymethylation of selected enhancers indicated that DNA hydroxymethylation is an early event of enhancer activation. Hence, acquisition of 5hmC in cell-specific distal regulatory regions may represent a major event of enhancer progression toward an active state and participate in selective activation of tissue-specific genes Genome-wide 5hmC distribution was determined using hMeDIP-seq. Cells used in this study are P19.6 mouse embryonal carnicoma cells and P19.6 cells treated for 48 hours with 1M-BM-5M all-trans retinoic acid (RA), as well as 3T3-L1 cells and 3T3-L1 derived adipocytes differentiated with dexamethasone, insulin and IBMX (differentiation cocktail - DC). Individual hMeDIP samples from P19.6 ord 3T3-L1 cells were pooled for library preparation. Libraries were prepared and sequenced at the IBL sequencing facility (Lille, France) with an Illumina Genome Analyser II.

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5-hydroxymethylcytosine is associated with enhancers and gene bodies in human embryonic stem cells.

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