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Article Dans Une Revue Nucleic Acids Research Année : 2012

Dynamic hydroxymethylation of deoxyribonucleic acid marks differentiation-associated enhancers.

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Enhancers are developmentally controlled transcriptional regulatory regions whose activities are modulated through histone modifications or histone variant deposition. In this study, we show by genome-wide mapping that the newly discovered deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) modification 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is dynamically associated with transcription factor binding to distal regulatory sites during neural differentiation of mouse P19 cells and during adipocyte differentiation of mouse 3T3-L1 cells. Functional annotation reveals that regions gaining 5hmC are associated with genes expressed either in neural tissues when P19 cells undergo neural differentiation or in adipose tissue when 3T3-L1 cells undergo adipocyte differentiation. Furthermore, distal regions gaining 5hmC together with H3K4me2 and H3K27ac in P19 cells behave as differentiation-dependent transcriptional enhancers. Identified regions are enriched in motifs for transcription factors regulating specific cell fates such as Meis1 in P19 cells and PPARγ in 3T3-L1 cells. Accordingly, a fraction of hydroxymethylated Meis1 sites were associated with a dynamic engagement of the 5-methylcytosine hydroxylase Tet1. In addition, kinetic studies of cytosine hydroxymethylation of selected enhancers indicated that DNA hydroxymethylation is an early event of enhancer activation. Hence, acquisition of 5hmC in cell-specific distal regulatory regions may represent a major event of enhancer progression toward an active state and participate in selective activation of tissue-specific genes.
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inserm-00716879 , version 1 (11-07-2012)

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Aurélien A. Sérandour, Stéphane Avner, Frédérik Oger, Maud Bizot, Frédéric Percevault, et al.. Dynamic hydroxymethylation of deoxyribonucleic acid marks differentiation-associated enhancers.. Nucleic Acids Research, 2012, 40 (17), pp.8255-65. ⟨10.1093/nar/gks595⟩. ⟨inserm-00716879⟩
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