Project description:We report the first genome-wide landscape of H3K9me2 ChIP-seq profile in mouse oocytes. We also performed whole-genome bisulfite sequencing and RNA-seq analysis of G9a conditional KO oocytes and maternal KO preimplantation embryos. Our findings illuminate the functional importance of G9a in preimplantation development and, in addition, pose a question on the proposed role for H3K9me2 in protection of the maternal genome from active CG demethylation.
Project description:Profiles of H3K4me3, H3K27ac, H3K27me3 and H3K9me3 in bovine GV oocytes and preimplantation embryos, and the characterization of chromatin accessibility in bovine blastocyst, inner cell mass and trophectoderm.
Project description:Sperm-derived tsRNAs could act as acquired epigenetic factors and contribute to offspring phenotypes. However, the roles of specific tsRNAs in early embryo development remain to be elucidated. Here, by using pigs as a research model, we probed the tsRNA dynamics during spermatogenesis and sperm maturation, and demonstrated the delivery of tsRNAs from semen-derived exosomes to spermatozoa. By microinjection of the antisense sequence into in vitro fertilized oocytes and subsequent single-cell RNA-sequencing of embryos, we identified a specific functional tsRNA group (Gln-TTGs) that participate in the early cleavage of porcine preimplantation embryos, probably by regulating cell cycle-associated genes. Thus, specific tsRNAs present in mature spermatozoa play significant roles during preimplantation embryo development.
Project description:We systematically analyzed transcriptome in individual human oocytes and preimplantation embryos with a new single-cell RNA seq method we recently developed. We sequenced individual single cells or embryos at seven consecutive stages (mature oocytes, zygotes, 2-cell, 4-cell, 8-cell embryos, morulae, and blastocysts) and single hESC using single-cell RNA seq.
Project description:We systematically analyzed transcriptome in individual human oocytes and preimplantation embryos with a new single-cell RNA seq method we recently developed.
Project description:ATAC sequencing of bovine oocytes and early embryos revealed a genome-wide map of accessible chromatin of bovine early embryo development, highlighting the critical features of chromatin landscape and epigenetic reprogramming during bovine preimplantation embryo development.
Project description:High resolution polysome fractionation and low-input ribosome profiling of bovine oocytes and preimplantation embryos has enabled us to define the translational landscape of early embryo development at an unprecedented level. We systematically and comparatively analyzed the transcriptome, polysome- and nonpolysome-bound RNA profiles of bovine oocytes and early embryos at 2-, 8-cell, morula, and blastocyst stage, and defined four modes of translational selectivity in bovine preimplantation embryo development: i. selective translation of non-abundant mRNAs, ii. active translating highly expressed mRNAs, iii. Translationally suppressed abundant mRNAs, and iv. Monosomaly occupied mRNAs. A strong selection towards genes involved in mitochondrial function and metabolic pathways was found throughout bovine preimplantation development. We found translatome largely follows transcriptome at oocytes, followed by a marked translational control at 8-cell embryos, which is gradually synchronized at the morula and blastocyst stage. We identified important novel cellular/embryonic functional regulators that being utilized and prioritized for translation at each developmental stage, that accompanies little-known bovine embryonic developmental programming. Together, these data reveal a unique spatiotemporal translational regulation that accompanies bovine preimplantation development.
Project description:Pigs are important animals for agricultural and biomedical research, and its assisted reproductive technologies are urgently needed to be improved. Determining the underlying mechanism of epigenetic reprogramming in the early stage of preimplantation embryos derived from in vitro fertilization (IVF), parthenogenesis (PA) and androgenesis (AG), will not only contribute to assisted reproduction technologies of pigs but also will shed light into early human development. We generated 3D chromatin profiles for pig somatic cells, IVF, PA and AG preimplantation embryos. We found that the chromosomes in the pig preimplantation embryos are enriched for superdomains, i.e., the larger than 10M compartment domains, which are much rarer in mice. Wheras, p(s) curves, compartments and TADs, are largely conserved in somatic cells, and are gradually establishing during preimplantation embryogenesis. In the uniparental pig embryos, the establishment of chromatin architecture was highly asynchronized at all levels from IVF embryos, and a remarkably strong decompartmentalization was observed during zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Finally, chromosomes originating from oocytes always establish TADs faster than chromosomes originating from sperm, both before and during ZGA.
