Project description:In this study we report that histone crotonylation promotes human embryonic stem cell differentiation to endoderm cells. Addition of crotonate, a precursor for crotonyl-CoA and therefore histone crotonylation, dramatically enhanced endoderm cell differentiation from human embryonic stem cells, while incubation of acetate, a precursor of acetyl-CoA and therefore histone acetylation, did not change the efficiency of endoderm differentiation.
Project description:We examined the genome-wide distribution of histone crotonylation and H3K27ac in human embryonic stem cells and induced endoderm cells, by obtaining over four billion bases of sequence from chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA. When compared to H3K27ac, histone crotonylation was more enriched in metabolic genes and in promoters at pluripotent state, while H3k27ac was enriched in the enhancers of endoderm genes. After endoderm differentiation, histone crotonylation and H3K27ac were both enriched in endoderm genes. Moreover, the enrichment of histone crotonylation was more remarkable than that of H3K27ac. Our data indicate that histone crotonylation correlates with endoderm differentiation.
Project description:Single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) on nocodazole and DMSO treated cells before and after differentiation into endoderm. hPSC colonies were treated with DMSO or 100ng/ml nocodazole for 16 hours and induced to differentiate into definitive endoderm for three days. Single cells were subsequently collected in either undifferentiated conditions (Und) or after 3 days of endoderm differentiation (Endoderm) and then sorted onto 384 well plates for Smart-Seq2 processing.
Project description:We report the identification of 67 previously undescribed histone modifications, increasing the current number of known histone marks by about 70%. We further investigated one of the marks, lysine crotonylation (Kcr), confirming that it represents an evolutionarily-conserved histone posttranslational modification. The unique structure and genomic localization of histone Kcr suggest that it is mechanistically and functionally different from histone lysine acetylation (Kac). Specifically, in both human somatic and mouse male germ cell genomes, histone Kcr marks either active promoters or potential enhancers. In male germinal cells immediately following meiosis, Kcr is enriched on sex chromosomes and specifically marks testis-specific genes, including a significant proportion of X-linked genes that escape sex chromosome inactivation in haploid cells. These results therefore dramatically extend the repertoire of histone PTM sites and designate Kcr as a specific mark of active sex chromosome-linked genes in postmeiotic male germ cells. 2 histone marks (pan-lysine acetylation and pan-lysine crotonylation) were studied in 1 human cell type and 2 mouse cell types using ChIP-Seq. Input was sequenced for each cell type as a control. Pan-anti_Kac and pan-anti_Kcr antibodies were custom developed with PTM BioLab, Co., Ltd (Chicago, IL).
Project description:Post-translational modifications of proteins are crucial to the regulation of their activity and function. As a newly discovered acylation modification, crotonylation of non-histone proteins remains largely unexplored, particularly in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Here we report the investigation of induced crotonylation in hESCs, which resulted in hESCs of different pluripotency states differentiating into the endodermal lineage. We showed that increased protein crotonylation in hESCs was accompanied by transcriptomic shifts and decreased glycolysis. Through large-scale profiling of non-histone protein crotonylation, we showed that metabolic enzymes were major targets of inducible crotonylation in hESCs. We further discovered GAPDH as a key glycolytic enzyme regulated by crotonylation during endodermal differentiation from hESCs, where crotonylation of GAPDH decreased its enzymatic activity thereby leading to reduced glycolysis. Our study demonstrates that crotonylation of glycolytic enzymes may be crucial to metabolic switching and cell fate determination in hESCs.
Project description:During mammalian pre-implantation development, the cells of the blastocyst’s inner cell mass differentiate into the epiblast and primitive endoderm lineages, which give rise to the fetus and extra-embryonic tissues, respectively. Extra-embryonic endoderm differentiation can be modeled in vitro by induced expression of GATA transcription factors in mouse embryonic stem cells. Here we use this GATA-inducible system to quantitatively monitor the dynamics of global proteomic changes during the early stages of this differentiation event and also investigate the fully differentiated phenotype, as represented by embryo-derived extra-embryonic endoderm (XEN) cells. Using mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomic profiling with multivariate data analysis tools, we reproducibly quantified 2,336 proteins across three biological replicates and have identified clusters of proteins characterized by distinct, dynamic temporal abundance profiles. We first used this approach to highlight novel marker candidates of the pluripotent state and extra-embryonic endoderm differentiation. Through functional annotation enrichment analysis, we have shown that the downregulation of chromatin-modifying enzymes, the re-organization of membrane trafficking machinery and the breakdown of cell-cell adhesion are successive steps of the extra-embryonic differentiation process. Thus, applying a range of sophisticated clustering approaches to a time-resolved proteomic dataset has allowed the elucidation of complex biological processes which characterize stem cell differentiation and could establish a general paradigm for the investigation of these processes.
Project description:Here, we used single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) to profile pluripotent stem cell derived human definitive endoderm and intestinal organoids (HIOs) at several timepoints of in vitro growth (7, 14, and 28 days) and after in vivo growth beneath the kidney capsule of a murine host (4 and 8 wks post-transplant). Additionally, we profiled HIOs grown in a non-adhesive alginate hydrogel and also CDX2 knockout HIOs. In order to benchmark the organoid cultures, we used scRNA-seq to profile primary human fetal esophagus (14.3 pcw, 16.7 pcw), stomach (6.7, 14.3, and 16.7 pcw), liver (14.4 pcw), small intestine ( 11.4 and 14.4 pcw) and colon (11.4, 14.4, and 18.9 pcw). Diverse cell lineages were captured across all tissues profiled, including: epithelium, mesenchyme, neurons, endothelium, and immune lineages.