Project description:Comprehensive quantitative proteomic study of human pre-implantation embryo stages reveal dynamic proteome landscape from M2, 8-cell and blastocyst stage, and during trophoblast stem cell (TS) differentiation. Identified key factors in early human embryos and lineage-specific trophoblast proteome profiles, correlated with transcriptomic analyses. This direct proteomic analysis provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic protein expression in human embryos during pre-implantation development and a powerful resource to enable further mechanistic studies on human trophoblast development and function.
Project description:Genetic studies have revealed an essential role for cytosine DNA methylation in gene regulation. However, its spatiotemporal distribution in the developing embryo remains obscure. Here, we profiled the DNA methylation landscape of 12 mouse tissues/organs at 8 developmental stages spanning from early embryo to birth. In-depth analysis of such spatiotemporal epigenome maps uncovered widespread regulatory DNA element dynamics during embryogenesis. We systematically delineated methylation variants that likely drive gene transcription, whose human counterparts are enriched for genetic risk factors of human diseases. Strikingly, these predicted regulatory elements predominantly lose CG methylation during fetal development, whereas the trend is reversed after birth. Key transcription factors, essential for early tissue/organ development, accumulate non-CG methylation within their gene bodies, coinciding with transcriptional repression during late stage fetal development. These spatiotemporal epigenomic datasets provide a valuable resource for studies of gene regulation during mammalian tissue/organ progression and the possible origins of human developmental diseases.
Project description:The mechanisms of gastrointestinal morphogenesis in mammals are not well understood. This is partly due to the lack of organ specific gene expression pattern in the gastrointestinal tract during development. The initiation of organ bud formation occurs at E9.5-E11.5 in mice. These primordia for the digestive organs, including esophagus, stomach, and intestine, protrude from a tube-like structured endoderm, and have their own distinct morphogenesis. Thus, using mouse embryos, we surveyed transcription of prospective these three regions at E11.5 during gastrointestinal morphogenesis. This early digestive organ specific transcription profile will be useful for understanding of the mechanisms of gastrointestinal development.
Project description:The mechanisms of gastrointestinal morphogenesis in mammals are not well understood. This is partly due to the lack of organ specific gene expression pattern in the gastrointestinal tract during development. The initiation of organ bud formation occurs at E9.5-E11.5 in mice. These primordia for the digestive organs, including esophagus, stomach, and intestine, protrude from a tube-like structured endoderm, and have their own distinct morphogenesis. Thus, using mouse embryos, we surveyed transcription of prospective these three regions at E11.5 during gastrointestinal morphogenesis. This early digestive organ specific transcription profile will be useful for understanding of the mechanisms of gastrointestinal development. Mouse gut organs morphogenesis begin at E9.5-E11.5. The primordium esophagus, stomach, and intestine at E11.5 were dissected and analysed transcription profile.
Project description:Our data provided a genome-wide DNA methylation landscape of human early development embryos, including human MII oocytes, sperm, zygotes, 2-cell to 8-cell embryos, morula, blastocyst and postimplantation embryos at single base resolution.