METTL3 塑造了 m6A 表谱学景观,以成功地实现人类的胎盘形成
Ram Parikshan Kumar1,2, Rajnish Kumar1, Avishek Ganguly1
1Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
|July 19, 2024
概括
甲基转移酶类3 (METTL3) 对于人类的胎盘形成至关重要. 它在 trofhoblast 细胞中的平衡功能对妊娠成功至关重要,调节细胞更新和分化.
科学领域:
- 生殖生物学 生殖生物学
- 表观遗传学 在表观遗传学中,表观遗传学是指表观遗传学.
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
背景情况:
- 甲基转移酶类3 (METTL3) 对于哺乳动物的发育至关重要.
- 对于METTL3在人类胎盘中的作用基本上是未知的.
- RNA m6A甲基化是一个关键的表体转录基因修饰.
研究的目的:
- 调查METTL3在人类胎位中的作用.
- 确定METTL3失调对怀孕结果的影响.
- 阐明METTL3影响热囊细胞功能的分子机制.
主要方法:
- 对人类胎盘组织中METTL3表达的分析,这些胎盘组织来自具有不良后果的怀孕.
- 在人类热细胞干细胞 (TSC) 中的功能丧失和功能增强研究.
- 全球RNA m6A分析和RNA结合分析.
- 条件删除的METTL3在老鼠热细胞的祖先.
主要成果:
- 热囊细胞中METTL3的平衡对于人类成功的胎盘形成至关重要.
- 热囊细胞前代体中METTL3的损失与重复的妊娠损失和早产有关.
- 在胎儿生长限制 (FGR) 中,METTL3被上调.
- METTL3对于TSC的自我更新和分化为外性热囊细胞 (EVTs) 是必不可少的.
- 失去METTL3有助于同胞细胞 (STB) 的发育.
- METTL3调节m6A修饰关键的热囊细胞调节器mRNAs (例如,GATA2,GATA3,TEAD1).
- 在老鼠热细胞的祖先中,METTL3的删除阻止了自我更新.
- METTL3 在热囊细胞前代体中起到保护性表体转录基因调节者的作用.
结论:
- 在人体胎盘中,METTL3发挥着关键的,保存的作用.
- METTL3 调节了 trofhoblast 先生的自我更新和分化命运.
- 对METTL3的调节失调有助于妊娠的不良结果.
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