Project description:DNA replication timing is known to facilitate the establishment of the epigenome, however, the intimate connection between replication timing and changes to the genome and epigenome in cancer remain largely uncharacterised. Here, we perform Repli-Seq and integrated epigenome analyses and demonstrate that genomic regions that undergo long-range epigenetic deregulation in prostate cancer also show concordant differences in replication timing. A subset of altered replication timing domains are conserved across cancers from different tissue origins. Notably, late-replicating regions in cancer cells display a loss of DNA methylation, and a switch in heterochromatin features from H3K9me3-marked constitutive to H3K27me3-marked facultative heterochromatin. Finally, analysis of 214 prostate and 35 breast cancer genomes reveal that late-replicating regions are prone to cis and early-replication to trans chromosomal rearrangements. Together, our data suggests that the nature of chromosomal rearrangement in cancer is related to the spatial and temporal positioning and altered epigenetic states of early-replicating compared to late-replicating loci.
Project description:DNA replication timing is known to facilitate the establishment of the epigenome, however, the intimate connection between replication timing and changes to the genome and epigenome in cancer remain largely uncharacterised. Here, we perform Repli-Seq and integrated epigenome analyses and demonstrate that genomic regions that undergo long-range epigenetic deregulation in prostate cancer also show concordant differences in replication timing. A subset of altered replication timing domains are conserved across cancers from different tissue origins. Notably, late-replicating regions in cancer cells display a loss of DNA methylation, and a switch in heterochromatin features from H3K9me3-marked constitutive to H3K27me3-marked facultative heterochromatin. Finally, analysis of 214 prostate and 35 breast cancer genomes reveal that late-replicating regions are prone to cis and early-replication to trans chromosomal rearrangements. Together, our data suggests that the nature of chromosomal rearrangement in cancer is related to the spatial and temporal positioning and altered epigenetic states of early-replicating compared to late-replicating loci.
Project description:DNA replication timing is known to facilitate the establishment of the epigenome, however, the intimate connection between replication timing and changes to the genome and epigenome in cancer remain largely uncharacterised. Here, we perform Repli-Seq and integrated epigenome analyses and demonstrate that genomic regions that undergo long-range epigenetic deregulation in prostate cancer also show concordant differences in replication timing. A subset of altered replication timing domains are conserved across cancers from different tissue origins. Notably, late-replicating regions in cancer cells display a loss of DNA methylation, and a switch in heterochromatin features from H3K9me3-marked constitutive to H3K27me3-marked facultative heterochromatin. Finally, analysis of 214 prostate and 35 breast cancer genomes reveal that late-replicating regions are prone to cis and early-replication to trans chromosomal rearrangements. Together, our data suggests that the nature of chromosomal rearrangement in cancer is related to the spatial and temporal positioning and altered epigenetic states of early-replicating compared to late-replicating loci.
Project description:Besides genome-wide patterns of replication timing (RT), some genes display allelic replication asynchrony in stem cells, brought about by stochastic events and genetic polymorphisms. Whether epigenetic modifications control asynchronous replication remains unclear. We explored mammalian imprinted domains, where parental DNA methylation imprints mediate allele-specific gene expression. Our genome-wide and locus-specific assays in mono-parental and hybrid mouse ESCs reveal pronounced RT asynchrony—which is parent-of-origin dependent and lost upon neural differentiation—at the Dlk1-Dio3 and Snrpn domains, which both comprise lncRNA polycistrons. Generating a range of mutant lines, we find that asynchronous replication at Dlk1-Dio3 is mediated by differential DNA methylation, and that the lncRNA Meg3 controls early replication across parts of the domain on the maternal chromosome. RT thereby becomes unlinked from 3D chromatin architecture as assayed by Hi-C. The combined replication timing, DNA methylation, 3D chromatin structure and gene expression data highlight how parental methylation imprints and lncRNA expression control replication and can override RT domain organisation.
Project description:Besides genome-wide patterns of replication timing (RT), some genes display allelic replication asynchrony in stem cells, brought about by stochastic events and genetic polymorphisms. Whether epigenetic modifications control asynchronous replication remains unclear. We explored mammalian imprinted domains, where parental DNA methylation imprints mediate allele-specific gene expression. Our genome-wide and locus-specific assays in mono-parental and hybrid mouse ESCs reveal pronounced RT asynchrony—which is parent-of-origin dependent and lost upon neural differentiation—at the Dlk1-Dio3 and Snrpn domains, which both comprise lncRNA polycistrons. Generating a range of mutant lines, we find that asynchronous replication at Dlk1-Dio3 is mediated by differential DNA methylation, and that the lncRNA Meg3 controls early replication across parts of the domain on the maternal chromosome. RT thereby becomes unlinked from 3D chromatin architecture as assayed by Hi-C. The combined replication timing, DNA methylation, 3D chromatin structure and gene expression data highlight how parental methylation imprints and lncRNA expression control replication and can override RT domain organisation.
Project description:Besides genome-wide patterns of replication timing (RT), some genes display allelic replication asynchrony in stem cells, brought about by stochastic events and genetic polymorphisms. Whether epigenetic modifications control asynchronous replication remains unclear. We explored mammalian imprinted domains, where parental DNA methylation imprints mediate allele-specific gene expression. Our genome-wide and locus-specific assays in mono-parental and hybrid mouse ESCs reveal pronounced RT asynchrony—which is parent-of-origin dependent and lost upon neural differentiation—at the Dlk1-Dio3 and Snrpn domains, which both comprise lncRNA polycistrons. Generating a range of mutant lines, we find that asynchronous replication at Dlk1-Dio3 is mediated by differential DNA methylation, and that the lncRNA Meg3 controls early replication across parts of the domain on the maternal chromosome. RT thereby becomes unlinked from 3D chromatin architecture as assayed by Hi-C. The combined replication timing, DNA methylation, 3D chromatin structure and gene expression data highlight how parental methylation imprints and lncRNA expression control replication and can override RT domain organisation.
Project description:Besides genome-wide patterns of replication timing (RT), some genes display allelic replication asynchrony in stem cells, brought about by stochastic events and genetic polymorphisms. Whether epigenetic modifications control asynchronous replication remains unclear. We explored mammalian imprinted domains, where parental DNA methylation imprints mediate allele-specific gene expression. Our genome-wide and locus-specific assays in mono-parental and hybrid mouse ESCs reveal pronounced RT asynchrony—which is parent-of-origin dependent and lost upon neural differentiation—at the Dlk1-Dio3 and Snrpn domains, which both comprise lncRNA polycistrons. Generating a range of mutant lines, we find that asynchronous replication at Dlk1-Dio3 is mediated by differential DNA methylation, and that the lncRNA Meg3 controls early replication across parts of the domain on the maternal chromosome. RT thereby becomes unlinked from 3D chromatin architecture as assayed by Hi-C. The combined replication timing, DNA methylation, 3D chromatin structure and gene expression data highlight how parental methylation imprints and lncRNA expression control replication and can override RT domain organisation.
Project description:This study demonstrates the stochastic nature of DNA replication-timing regulation by measures genome-wide replication timing in single-cells
Project description:This study demonstrates the stochastic nature of DNA replication-timing regulation by measures genome-wide replication timing in single-cells
Project description:This study demonstrates the stochastic nature of DNA replication-timing regulation by measuring genome-wide replication timing in single-cells