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Ovol2 sustains postnatal thymic epithelial cell identity


ABSTRACT: Thymic epithelial cells (TECs) begin to develop embryonically in mice and humans, expand in number through puberty, and then stabilize before declining during early adulthood. We identified a mechanism by which TEC numbers and function are maintained postnatally, discovered through a forward genetic screen for altered immune cell development in mice. A viable missense allele (C120Y) of Ovol2 resulted in lymphopenia, in which T cell development was compromised by loss of medullary TECs and dysfunction of cortical TECs. OVOL2 is an essential regulator of epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), and we show that the epithelial identity of TECs is subverted towards a mesenchymal state in OVOL2-deficient mice. We document global changes in chromatin accessibility correlated with gene expression, particularly affecting genes involved in epithelial and mesenchymal cell proliferation and differentiation. OVOL2 regulates chromatin accessibility by inhibiting the BRAF-HDAC complex. In particular, it disrupts the RCOR1-LSD1 complex by directly binding to the lysine demethylase LSD1, resulting in inhibition of LSD1-mediated H3K4me2 demethylation. Thus, OVOL2 controls the epigenetic landscape of TECs, preventing EMT and enforcing TEC identity to support T cell development in the thymus.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos, Q Exactive HF

ORGANISM(S): Mus Musculus (ncbitaxon:10090)

SUBMITTER: Jin Huk Choi  

PROVIDER: MSV000090946 | MassIVE | Wed Dec 21 09:13:00 GMT 2022

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PXD039041

REPOSITORIES: MassIVE

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