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Paliou C. Gene regulation helps species thrive in new climates. Commun Biol 2024; 7:82. [PMID: 38212626 PMCID: PMC10784463 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05755-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Christina Paliou
- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/ Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)/ Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain.
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Marlétaz F, de la Calle-Mustienes E, Acemel RD, Paliou C, Naranjo S, Martínez-García PM, Cases I, Sleight VA, Hirschberger C, Marcet-Houben M, Navon D, Andrescavage A, Skvortsova K, Duckett PE, González-Rajal Á, Bogdanovic O, Gibcus JH, Yang L, Gallardo-Fuentes L, Sospedra I, Lopez-Rios J, Darbellay F, Visel A, Dekker J, Shubin N, Gabaldón T, Nakamura T, Tena JJ, Lupiáñez DG, Rokhsar DS, Gómez-Skarmeta JL. The little skate genome and the evolutionary emergence of wing-like fins. Nature 2023; 616:495-503. [PMID: 37046085 PMCID: PMC10115646 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05868-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
Abstract
Skates are cartilaginous fish whose body plan features enlarged wing-like pectoral fins, enabling them to thrive in benthic environments1,2. However, the molecular underpinnings of this unique trait remain unclear. Here we investigate the origin of this phenotypic innovation by developing the little skate Leucoraja erinacea as a genomically enabled model. Analysis of a high-quality chromosome-scale genome sequence for the little skate shows that it preserves many ancestral jawed vertebrate features compared with other sequenced genomes, including numerous ancient microchromosomes. Combining genome comparisons with extensive regulatory datasets in developing fins-including gene expression, chromatin occupancy and three-dimensional conformation-we find skate-specific genomic rearrangements that alter the three-dimensional regulatory landscape of genes that are involved in the planar cell polarity pathway. Functional inhibition of planar cell polarity signalling resulted in a reduction in anterior fin size, confirming that this pathway is a major contributor to batoid fin morphology. We also identified a fin-specific enhancer that interacts with several hoxa genes, consistent with the redeployment of hox gene expression in anterior pectoral fins, and confirmed its potential to activate transcription in the anterior fin using zebrafish reporter assays. Our findings underscore the central role of genome reorganization and regulatory variation in the evolution of phenotypes, shedding light on the molecular origin of an enigmatic trait.
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- Ferdinand Marlétaz
- Centre for Life's Origin and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.
- Molecular Genetics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
- Epigenetics and Sex Development Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BCS-CNS), Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
- School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BCS-CNS), Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain.
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- Epigenetics and Sex Development Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany.
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- Molecular Genetics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan.
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain
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Ringel AR, Szabo Q, Chiariello AM, Chudzik K, Schöpflin R, Rothe P, Mattei AL, Zehnder T, Harnett D, Laupert V, Bianco S, Hetzel S, Glaser J, Phan MHQ, Schindler M, Ibrahim DM, Paliou C, Esposito A, Prada-Medina CA, Haas SA, Giere P, Vingron M, Wittler L, Meissner A, Nicodemi M, Cavalli G, Bantignies F, Mundlos S, Robson MI. Repression and 3D-restructuring resolves regulatory conflicts in evolutionarily rearranged genomes. Cell 2022; 185:3689-3704.e21. [PMID: 36179666 PMCID: PMC9567273 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Revised: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Regulatory landscapes drive complex developmental gene expression, but it remains unclear how their integrity is maintained when incorporating novel genes and functions during evolution. Here, we investigated how a placental mammal-specific gene, Zfp42, emerged in an ancient vertebrate topologically associated domain (TAD) without adopting or disrupting the conserved expression of its gene, Fat1. In ESCs, physical TAD partitioning separates Zfp42 and Fat1 with distinct local enhancers that drive their independent expression. This separation is driven by chromatin activity and not CTCF/cohesin. In contrast, in embryonic limbs, inactive Zfp42 shares Fat1's intact TAD without responding to active Fat1 enhancers. However, neither Fat1 enhancer-incompatibility nor nuclear envelope-attachment account for Zfp42's unresponsiveness. Rather, Zfp42's promoter is rendered inert to enhancers by context-dependent DNA methylation. Thus, diverse mechanisms enabled the integration of independent Zfp42 regulation in the Fat1 locus. Critically, such regulatory complexity appears common in evolution as, genome wide, most TADs contain multiple independently expressed genes.
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- Alessa R Ringel
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy; Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Despang A, Schöpflin R, Franke M, Ali S, Jerković I, Paliou C, Chan WL, Timmermann B, Wittler L, Vingron M, Mundlos S, Ibrahim DM. Functional dissection of the Sox9-Kcnj2 locus identifies nonessential and instructive roles of TAD architecture. Nat Genet 2019; 51:1263-1271. [PMID: 31358994 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0466-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
The genome is organized in three-dimensional units called topologically associating domains (TADs), through a process dependent on the cooperative action of cohesin and the DNA-binding factor CTCF. Genomic rearrangements of TADs have been shown to cause gene misexpression and disease, but genome-wide depletion of CTCF has no drastic effects on transcription. Here, we investigate TAD function in vivo in mouse limb buds at the Sox9-Kcnj2 locus. We show that the removal of all major CTCF sites at the boundary and within the TAD resulted in a fusion of neighboring TADs, without major effects on gene expression. Gene misexpression and disease phenotypes, however, were achieved by redirecting regulatory activity through inversions and/or the repositioning of boundaries. Thus, TAD structures provide robustness and precision but are not essential for developmental gene regulation. Aberrant disease-related gene activation is not induced by a mere loss of insulation but requires CTCF-dependent redirection of enhancer-promoter contacts.
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- Alexandra Despang
- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- CNRS-Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier, France
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Sequencing Core Facility, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Developmental Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
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Paliou C, Guckelberger P, Schöpflin R, Heinrich V, Esposito A, Chiariello AM, Bianco S, Annunziatella C, Helmuth J, Haas S, Jerković I, Brieske N, Wittler L, Timmermann B, Nicodemi M, Vingron M, Mundlos S, Andrey G. Preformed chromatin topology assists transcriptional robustness of Shh during limb development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:12390-12399. [PMID: 31147463 PMCID: PMC6589666 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1900672116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Long-range gene regulation involves physical proximity between enhancers and promoters to generate precise patterns of gene expression in space and time. However, in some cases, proximity coincides with gene activation, whereas, in others, preformed topologies already exist before activation. In this study, we investigate the preformed configuration underlying the regulation of the Shh gene by its unique limb enhancer, the ZRS, in vivo during mouse development. Abrogating the constitutive transcription covering the ZRS region led to a shift within the Shh-ZRS contacts and a moderate reduction in Shh transcription. Deletion of the CTCF binding sites around the ZRS resulted in the loss of the Shh-ZRS preformed interaction and a 50% decrease in Shh expression but no phenotype, suggesting an additional, CTCF-independent mechanism of promoter-enhancer communication. This residual activity, however, was diminished by combining the loss of CTCF binding with a hypomorphic ZRS allele, resulting in severe Shh loss of function and digit agenesis. Our results indicate that the preformed chromatin structure of the Shh locus is sustained by multiple components and acts to reinforce enhancer-promoter communication for robust transcription.
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- Christina Paliou
- Research Group Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Research Group Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Research Group Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Naples, Italy
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Max Delbrück Center-Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Otto-Warburg-Laboratory: Epigenomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Research Group Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Research Group Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Developmental Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Sequencing Core Facility, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Naples, Italy
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Max Delbrück Center-Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Research Group Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany;
- Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Research Group Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany;
- Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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Andrey G, Schöpflin R, Jerković I, Heinrich V, Ibrahim DM, Paliou C, Hochradel M, Timmermann B, Haas S, Vingron M, Mundlos S. Characterization of hundreds of regulatory landscapes in developing limbs reveals two regimes of chromatin folding. Genome Res 2016; 27:223-233. [PMID: 27923844 PMCID: PMC5287228 DOI: 10.1101/gr.213066.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Complex regulatory landscapes control the pleiotropic transcriptional activities of developmental genes. For most genes, the number, location, and dynamics of their associated regulatory elements are unknown. In this work, we characterized the three-dimensional chromatin microarchitecture and regulatory landscape of 446 limb-associated gene loci in mouse using Capture-C, ChIP-seq, and RNA-seq in forelimb, hindlimb at three developmental stages, and midbrain. The fine mapping of chromatin interactions revealed a strong preference for functional genomic regions such as repressed or active domains. By combining chromatin marks and interaction peaks, we annotated more than 1000 putative limb enhancers and their associated genes. Moreover, the analysis of chromatin interactions revealed two regimes of chromatin folding, one producing interactions stable across tissues and stages and another one associated with tissue and/or stage-specific interactions. Whereas stable interactions associate strongly with CTCF/RAD21 binding, the intensity of variable interactions correlates with changes in underlying chromatin modifications, specifically at the viewpoint and at the interaction site. In conclusion, this comprehensive data set provides a resource for the characterization of hundreds of limb-associated regulatory landscapes and a framework to interpret the chromatin folding dynamics observed during embryogenesis.
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- Guillaume Andrey
- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Sequencing Core Facility, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Sequencing Core Facility, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- RG Development & Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.,Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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Kraft K, Geuer S, Will AJ, Chan WL, Paliou C, Borschiwer M, Harabula I, Wittler L, Franke M, Ibrahim DM, Kragesteen BK, Spielmann M, Mundlos S, Lupiáñez DG, Andrey G. Deletions, Inversions, Duplications: Engineering of Structural Variants using CRISPR/Cas in Mice. Cell Rep 2015; 10:833-839. [PMID: 25660031 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2014] [Revised: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Structural variations (SVs) contribute to the variability of our genome and are often associated with disease. Their study in model systems was hampered until now by labor-intensive genetic targeting procedures and multiple mouse crossing steps. Here we present the use of CRISPR/Cas for the fast (10 weeks) and efficient generation of SVs in mice. We specifically produced deletions, inversions, and also duplications at six different genomic loci ranging from 1.1 kb to 1.6 Mb with efficiencies up to 42%. After PCR-based selection, clones were successfully used to create mice via aggregation. To test the practicability of the method, we reproduced a human 500 kb disease-associated deletion and were able to recapitulate the human phenotype in mice. Furthermore, we evaluated the regulatory potential of a large genomic interval by deleting a 1.5 Mb fragment. The method presented permits rapid in vivo modeling of genomic rearrangements.
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Affiliation(s)
- Katerina Kraft
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Chrysohoou C, Pitsavos C, Skoumas J, Papademetriou L, Masoura C, Paliou C, Kambaxis M, Panagiotakos D, Stefanadis C. WO11-OR-6 THE IMPLICATION OF OBESITY ON TOTAL ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY IN APPARENTLY HEALTHY MEN AND WOMEN: THE ATTICA STUDY. ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPP 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/s1567-5688(07)70990-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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