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Expression data from mouse wild type, PRDM14-overexpressing and Dnmts KO embryonic stem cells (ESCs).

ABSTRACT: Germline cells reprogram extensive epigenetic modifications to ensure the cellular totipotency of the next generation and prevent accumulation of epimutations. Primordial germ cells (PGCs)1, the common source of both oocytes and sperm, erase genome-wide DNA methylation and histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation (H3K9me2), a process called genome-wide epigenetic reprogramming2,3. However, little is known about the molecular mechanism of DNA demethylation by developing PGCs. Here we show that overexpression of PRDM14, a critical regulator for specification and early differentiation of PGCs, promotes global DNA demethylation in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). PRDM14 directly represses transcription of de novo DNA methyltransferase, Dnmt3b, but its repression is not sufficient for global DNA demethylation. Comparison of global gene expression profiles between PRDM14-overexpressing ESCs and Dnmts triple mutant ESCs clearly demonstrates that overexpression of PRDM14 activates about half of the genes silenced by DNA methylation in ESCs. Furthermore, PRDM14 directly interacts with TET1, which converts 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, and DNA demethylation by overexpression of PRDM14 is strongly disturbed by pharmacological inhibitors of the base excision repair (BER) pathway. We propose that formation of a PRDM14/TET1 complex triggers the activation of BER-dependent active demethylation across the whole genome of developing PGCs.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE36371 | GEO | 2021/02/17

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins oxidize 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), 5-formylcytsosine (5fC), and 5-carboxylcytosine (5caC). 5fC/5caC can be excised and repaired by the base excision repair (BER) pathway, implicating 5mC oxidation in active DNA demethylation. Genome-wide DNA methylation is erased in the transition from metastable states to ground state of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and in migrating primordial germ cells (PGCs), while some resistant regions become demethylated only in gonadal PGCs. Understanding the mechanisms underlying global hypomethylation in naïve ESCs and developing PGCs will be useful for realizing cellular pluripotency and totipotency. In this study, we found that PRDM14, the PR-domain-containing transcriptional regulator, accelerates the TET-BER cycle, resulting in the promotion of active DNA demethylation in ESCs. Induction of PRDM14 expression rapidly removed the 5mC associated with transient elevation of 5hmC at pluripotency-associated genes, germline-specific genes, and imprinted loci but not across the entire genome, which resemble second wave of DNA demethylation in gonadal PGCs. PRDM14 physically interacts with TET1/TET2 and enhances the recruitment of TET1/TET2 at target loci. Knockdown of Tet1/Tet2 impaired transcriptional regulation and DNA demethylation by PRDM14. The repression of the BER pathway by administration of pharmacological inhibitors against APE1 and PARP1 and the knockdown of thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) also impaired DNA demethylation by PRDM14. Furthermore, DNA demethylation induced by PRDM14 normally takes place in the presence of aphidicolin, which is an inhibitor of G1/S progression. Together, our analysis provides mechanistic insight into DNA demethylation in naive pluripotent stem cells and developing PGCs. To investigate the function of TET1/TET2 in transcriptional regulation by PRDM14 in ESCs, we exploited microarray analysis using total mRNA derived from Scramble, Scramble + PRDM14, Tet1/Tet2 KD, Tet1/Tet2 KD + PRDM14 mouse ESC.

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Expression data from mouse wild type, PRDM14-overexpressing and Dnmts KO embryonic stem cells (ESCs).

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