Project description:To gain a deeper insight into dynamic changes of histone lysine crotonylation and lactylation during embryonic neurogenesis, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq and RNA-seq were performed to analyze the genome-wide changes of histone Kcr and Kla in the developing telencephalon.
Project description:To gain a deeper insight into dynamic changes of histone lysine crotonylation and lactylation during embryonic neurogenesis, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq and RNA-seq were performed to analyze the genome-wide changes of histone Kcr and Kla in the P19 embryonal carcinoma cells.
Project description:Hypoxia promotes tumorigenesis and lactate accumulation in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Lactate can induce histone lysine lactylation (Kla, a recently-identified histone marks) to regulate transcription. However, the functional consequence of histone Kla under hypoxia in ESCC remains to be explored. Here, we reveal that hypoxia facilitates histone H3K9la to enhance LAMC2 transcription for proliferation of ESCC. We found that global level of Kla was elevated under hypoxia, and thus identified the landscape of histone Kla in ESCC by quantitative proteomics. Furthermore, we show a significant increase of H3K9la level induced by hypoxia. Next, MNseq ChIP-seq and RNA-seq analysis suggest that H3K9la is enriched at the promoter of cell junction genes. Finally, we demonstrate that the histone H3K9la facilitates the expression of LAMC2 for ESCC invasion by in vivo and in vitro experiments. Briefly, our study reveal a vital role of histone Kla triggered by hypoxia in cancer.
Project description:Lysine lactylation (Kla) links metabolism and gene regulation and plays a key role in multiple biological processes. However, the regulatory mechanism and functional consequence of Kla remain to be explored. Here, we report that HBO1 functions as a lysine lactyltransferase to regulate transcription. Interestingly, CUT&Tag assays demonstrate that HBO1 is required for histone H3K9la on TSSs and the regulated Kla can facilitate in signaling pathways and progress of tumorigenesis. Our study reveals HBO1 serves as a lactyltransferase to mediate a histone Kla-dependent gene transcription.
Project description:Dynamic transcriptomes during neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells revealed by short long, and paired-end sequencing In order to examine the fundamental mechanisms governing neural differentiation, we analyzed the transcriptome changes that occur during the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) into the neural lineage. Undifferentiated hESCs as well as cells at three stages of early neural differentiation, N1 (early initiation), N2 (neural progenitor), and N3 (early glial-like) were analyzed using a combination of single read, paired-end read, and long read RNA sequencing. The results revealed enormous complexity in gene transcription and splicing dynamics during neural cell differentiation. We found previously unannotated transcripts and spliced isoforms specific for each stage of differentiation. Interestingly, splicing isoform diversity is highest in undifferentiated hESCs and decreases upon differentiation, a phenomenon we call “isoform specialization.” During neural differentiation, we observed differential expression of many types of genes including those involved in key signaling pathways, and a large number of extracellular receptors exhibit stage-specific regulation. These results provide a valuable resource for studying neural differentiation and reveal insights into the mechanisms underlying in vitro neural differentiation of hESCs, such as neural fate specification, NPC identity maintenance and the transition from a predominantly neuronal state into one with increased gliogenic potential
Project description:Our system recapitulates expected characteristics of the well characterized H3.3 histone variant, and show that we gain additional information by using a kinetic approach. Additionaly, our results on the less-studied MacroH2A2 variant revealed differential dynamic profiles of this M-bM-^@M-^\repressiveM-bM-^@M-^] histone variant. Our results represent a novel approach to histone dynamics in mammalian cells, reveal unanticipated dynamic behavior of the MacroH2A2 variant in pluripotent cells, and provide a resource for future studies of tissuespecific histone dynamics in vivo. We use a pulse-chase strategy for carrying out genome-wide measurements of histone dynamics to several histone variants in murine embryonic stem cells and somatic tissues. Genomic binding profiles of histone dynamics in normal ES cells, along with their differentiated counter parts, in MEFs, determined by ChIP-seq.
Project description:We have identified a new histone modification, which is derived from glycolysis end product, lactate. By SILAC-MS/MS based quantification, and U-13C6 glucose labeling experiments, we demonstrate that histone Kla is regulated by cellular glycolysis pathway
Project description:Our system recapitulates expected characteristics of the well characterized H3.3 histone variant, and show that we gain additional information by using a kinetic approach. Additionaly, our results on the less-studied MacroH2A2 variant revealed differential dynamic profiles of this “repressive” histone variant. Our results represent a novel approach to histone dynamics in mammalian cells, reveal unanticipated dynamic behavior of the MacroH2A2 variant in pluripotent cells, and provide a resource for future studies of tissuespecific histone dynamics in vivo.