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宽泛的容许性肠染色素是横向抑制和细胞可塑性的基础
Tae-Hee Kim1, Fugen Li2, Isabel Ferreiro-Neira1
11] Department of Medical Oncology and Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA [2] Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Nature
|January 14, 2014
概括
鼠标肠道中的细胞分化涉及与广泛允许的染色质相互作用的血统受限制的转录因子. 这允许在横向抑制过程中快速,可逆的细胞命运变化,建立明显的吸收和分泌系.
科学领域:
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 发展生物学 发展生物学
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
背景情况:
- 细胞分化依赖于转录因子,结合可访问的 cis-调节元素.
- 侧向抑制是一个关键的过程,其中一个细胞影响其邻居的命运,但底层的染色质动态尚不清楚.
- 了解前代细胞如何在横向抑制过程中快速采用独特的可逆细胞命运至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究染色质和转录机制驱动小鼠小肠密室的差异化.
- 阐明Notch信号是如何调解侧向抑制的,以确定吸收和分泌系.
- 探索转录因子在谱系可塑性中的作用.
主要方法:
- 转录LGR5(+) 肠干细胞及其原始细胞的分析.
- 分析基因素标记 (H3K4me2,H3K27ac) 和DNase I过敏性,以评估染色质的可访问性.
- 通过枯竭研究研究ATOH1转录因子的功能.
主要成果:
- 分泌和吸收的祖先在许多cis元素中表现出类似的可访问的染色质状态,表明早期的染色质原始化.
- 增强剂在原始细胞中活跃,在干细胞中早期被划分,并保留了后系特征的标志.
- 转录因子ATOH1控制横向抑制并驱动分泌系基因表达,其缺失导致转化为肠细胞.
结论:
- 肠道密室中的侧向抑制和谱系可塑性涉及与预先建立的允许色素相互作用的转录因子.
- 多能干细胞中的宽容性染色体促进了快速和可逆的细胞命运决定.
- 血统受限的转录因子在这种可适应的染色体景观上动态调节基因表达程序.
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