Project description:We uncover a pivotal role for ESRRB in demarcating ESC-specific enhancer units, and propose that ESRRB’s developmentally-regulated extinction precipitates their decommissioning with impact on the rewiring of the pluripotency transcriptional programme upon embryo implantation.
Project description:We uncover a pivotal role for ESRRB in demarcating ESC-specific enhancer units, and propose that ESRRB’s developmentally-regulated extinction precipitates their decommissioning with impact on the rewiring of the pluripotency transcriptional programme upon embryo implantation
Project description:We report the application of 4C-Seq technique for exploring POU5F1 enhancer interactome in mouse embryonic stem cells. A statistical model was built to identify enriched interacting regions from raw 4C data. The biological replicate data were compared to identify reproducible interacting regions. The interacting sites in the reproducible regions are enriched with active histone marks as well as transcription factors Oct4, Klf4, Esrrb, Tcfcp2i1 and Zfx that are critical for reprogramming and pluripotency. Generation of Illumina HiSeq2000 sequencing data using 4C-Seq protocol
Project description:We report the application of 4C-Seq technique for exploring POU5F1 enhancer interactome in mouse embryonic stem cells. A statistical model was built to identify enriched interacting regions from raw 4C data. The biological replicate data were compared to identify reproducible interacting regions. The interacting sites in the reproducible regions are enriched with active histone marks as well as transcription factors Oct4, Klf4, Esrrb, Tcfcp2i1 and Zfx that are critical for reprogramming and pluripotency.
Project description:Orphan nuclear receptor Esrrb is vital in maintaining ES cells and like Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog is essential for self-renewal and pluripotency. Esrrb functions in somatic cells via LBD/AF-2-dependent coactivator recruitment to target genes. Here we show that in ES cells coactivator recruitment is similarly required and identify Ncoa3 as the Esrrb coactivator needed for activation of its target genes. Ncoa3 is essential for self-renewal and the induction of pluripotency in reprogramming, and genome-wide analysis of Ncoa3 binding reveals extensive overlap with Esrrb and pluripotency factors along with marks of active genes. Mechanistically, we show Ncoa3 is specifically required to bridge RNApol2 to Esrrb. We thus identify a new member of the ES pluripotency network and describe Esrrb and Ncoa3 as key factors linking core pluripotency factors to the general transcription machinery.
Project description:Orphan nuclear receptor Esrrb is vital in maintaining ES cells and like Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog is essential for self-renewal and pluripotency. Esrrb functions in somatic cells via LBD/AF-2-dependent coactivator recruitment to target genes. Here we show that in ES cells coactivator recruitment is similarly required and identify Ncoa3 as the Esrrb coactivator needed for activation of its target genes. Ncoa3 is essential for self-renewal and the induction of pluripotency in reprogramming, and genome-wide analysis of Ncoa3 binding reveals extensive overlap with Esrrb and pluripotency factors along with marks of active genes. Mechanistically, we show Ncoa3 is specifically required to bridge RNApol2 to Esrrb. We thus identify a new member of the ES pluripotency network and describe Esrrb and Ncoa3 as key factors linking core pluripotency factors to the general transcription machinery. ChIP experiments were carried out with chromatin prepared from E14 cells as previously described (Stock et al., 2007), using 8-10 ug primary antibody for NcoA3 and 600 ug pre-cleared chromatin per IP. Antibody for NcoA3 was from Santacruz (sc-9119) .
Project description:Esrrb is a transcription factor implicated in embryonic stem (ES) cell self-renewal, yet its knockout causes intrauterine lethality due to defects in trophoblast development. Here we show that in trophoblast stem (TS) cells, Esrrb is a downstream target of fibroblast growth factor (Fgf) signalling and is critical to drive TS cell self-renewal. In contrast to its occupancy of pluripotency-associated loci in ES cells, Esrrb sustains the stemness of TS cells by direct binding and regulation of TS cell-specific transcription factors including Elf5 and Eomes. To elucidate the mechanisms whereby Esrrb controls the expression of its targets, we characterized its TS cell-specific interactome by mass spectrometry. Unlike in ES cells, Esrrb interacts in TS cells with the histone demethylase Lsd1 and with the RNA Polymerase II-associated Integrator complex. Our findings provide new insights into both, the general and context-dependent wiring of transcription factor networks in stem cells by master transcription factors.
Project description:We report the application of enyzme-based 4C-Seq technique for exploring Pou5f1 enhancer interactome in mouse ES cells. We explored the interactome of Pou5f1 upstream enhancer in mouse ES cells by using an enzyme digestion based 4C-Seq protocol. The interactome is involved in gene active regulation.