Project description:Hundreds of DNA replication forks functioning simultaneously are essential for timely DNA duplication, but the organization of replication forks are poorly understood in mammalian cells. Here, we developed a replication-enriched in situ HiC (Repli-HiC) method to capture chromatin contacts located adjacent to replication forks and found two types of fountain-like chromatin contacts at thousands of loci. Interactions within fountain-spanning regions are confirmed by q3C-seq analysis of different stages of S phase cells.
2024-03-04 | GSE230613 | GEO
Project description:Fountain structure after DNA replication
Project description:Exercise late in life mitigates skeletal muscle epigenetic aging, providing evidence that physical activity is a "fountain of youth".
2021-12-31 | GSE175410 | GEO
Project description:Host response to plasmid replication and maintenance
Project description:SUMOylation, a conserved post-translational modification in eukaryotes, regulates protein function, localization, and stability. However, the role of SUMO chains in genome maintenance is still emerging. Using Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we show that loss of SUMO chains results in spontaneous replication stress, DNA damage, and elevated centromeric recombination. To investigate SUMO-dependent interactome at the sites of Rad52 repair, we used split-SUMO-ID proteomics approach. It allowed analysis of local SUMOylation content at the Rad52 repair sites, and enabled identification of the essential replication factor PCNA. We found that SUMO chain-modified PCNA antagonizes Rad8-mediated PCNA polyubiquitination, modulating the choice of post-replication repair pathways at stalled forks within centromeres. In the absence of polySUMOylation, excessive PCNA polyubiquitination drives elevated recombination at centromeres. Artificial tethering of a SUMO chain to Rad52 suppresses this defect. Our findings uncover an essential role for SUMO chains in centromere maintenance by modulating DNA repair pathway choice under endogenous replication stress.
Project description:Replication disrupts chromatin organization. Thus, rapid resetting of nucleosome positioning is essential to maintain faithful gene expression. The initial step of this reconfiguration occurs at Nucleosome-Depleted Regions (NDRs). While studies have elucidated the role of Transcription Factors (TFs) and Chromatin Remodelers (CRs) in vitro or in maintaining NDRs in vivo, none has addressed their in vivo function shortly after replication. Through purification of nascent chromatin coupled with yeast genetics, we dissected the choreography of events governing the proper positioning of the -1/+1 nucleosomes flanking promoter NDRs. Our findings reveal that CRs are the primary contributors of -1/+1 repositioning post-replication, with RSC acting upstream of INO80. Surprisingly, while Reb1 and Abf1 TFs are not essential for NDR resetting, they are required for NDR maintenance via the promotion of H3 acetylations. Taken together, we propose a two-step model for NDR resetting in S. cerevisiae: first, CRs alone reset promoter NDRs after replication, while a combination of TFs and CRs is required for subsequent maintenance.
Project description:Pathogenic variants of ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7) cause the neurodevelopmental disorder Hao-Fountain syndrome. However, which of its pleiotropic substrates are relevant for neurodevelopment has remained unclear. Here, we present a combination of quantitative proteomics, transcriptomics and epigenomics to define the core USP7 circuitry during neurodifferentiation. USP7 activity is required for the transcriptional programs that direct the differentiation of human ESCs to neural stem cells, and neuronal differentiation of SHSY5Y neuroblastoma cells. In addition to other substrates, including TRIM27, USP7 controls the dosage of the Polycomb H2AK119ub1 ubiquitin ligases ncPRC1.1 and ncPRC1.6. We found that BCOR-ncPRC1.1, but not ncPRC1.6 or TRIM27, is a key effector of USP7-dependent neuronal differentiation. Indeed, BCOR-ncPRC1.1 mediates the majority of USP7-dependent gene regulation during this process. Besides providing a detailed map of the USP7 regulome during neuronal differentiation, our results suggest that Hao-Fountain syndrome and ncPRC1.1-associated neurodevelopmental disorders involve dysregulation of a shared epigenetic network.
Project description:It is well-known that embryonic stem cells (ESC) are much more sensitive to replication-induced stress than differentiated cells but the underpinning mechanisms are largely unknown. H2A.X, a minor variant of H2A, constitutes only 1-10% of the mammalian genome. H2A.X plays a well-known for role in the DNA damage response and maintaining stability in the genome, including the regions frequently experiencing replication stress, such as the fragile sites. Intriguingly, several recent studies have reported that H2A.X function is elevated in ESC; and others reported that H2A.X function is provoked during cellular reprogramming (in induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSC), indicating that increased proliferation during iPS may trigger replication stress and the H2A.X DNA damage response. However, several studies of genomic instability in iPSC led to different conclusions on this important issue. For example, frequent copy number variants (CNV) were reported at the genomic regions sensitive to replication stress, such as the fragile sites. On the other hand, another study reported the lack of genomic instability in mouse iPS clones that are able to generate “all-iPS” animals in tetraploid complementation assays (4N+ iPSC), indicative of a potential link between pluripotency and genome integrity. However, whether if high level genomic instability occurs in the 4N- iPSC iPSC clones at replication stress sensitive regions is unknown. Moreover, due to the lack of mechanistic insights on genome integrity maintenance, how pluripotency and genome integrity are connected remains elusive. Here we show that H2A.X plays unexpected roles in maintaining pluripotency and genome integrity in ESC and iPSC. In ESC, it is specially enriched at genomic regions sensitive to replication stress so that it protects genome integrity thereat. Faithful H2A.X deposition is critical for genome integrity and pluripotency in iPSC. H2A.X depositions in 4N+ iPSC clones faithfully recapitulate the ESC pattern and therefore, prevent genome instability. On the other hand, insufficient H2A.X depositions in 4N- iPSC clones at such regions lead to genome instability and defects in replication stress response and DNA repair, reminiscent of the H2A.X deficient ESC. Detect and compare different H2A.X deposition patterns in ES cells and iPS cells, with Illumina HiSeq 2000 and Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx