RRC ID 47249
著者 Fukuda A, Mitani A, Miyashita T, Sado T, Umezawa A, Akutsu H.
タイトル Maintenance of Xist Imprinting Depends on Chromatin Condensation State and Rnf12 Dosage in Mice.
ジャーナル PLoS Genet
Abstract In female mammals, activation of Xist (X-inactive specific transcript) is essential for establishment of X chromosome inactivation. During early embryonic development in mice, paternal Xist is preferentially expressed whereas maternal Xist (Xm-Xist) is silenced. Unlike autosomal imprinted genes, Xist imprinting for Xm-Xist silencing was erased in cloned or parthenogenetic but not fertilized embryos. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the variable nature of Xm-Xist imprinting is poorly understood. Here, we revealed that Xm-Xist silencing depends on chromatin condensation states at the Xist/Tsix genomic region and on Rnf12 expression levels. In early preimplantation, chromatin decondensation via H3K9me3 loss and histone acetylation gain caused Xm-Xist derepression irrespective of embryo type. Although the presence of the paternal genome during pronuclear formation impeded Xm-Xist derepression, Xm-Xist was robustly derepressed when the maternal genome was decondensed before fertilization. Once Xm-Xist was derepressed by chromatin alterations, the derepression was stably maintained and rescued XmXpΔ lethality, indicating that loss of Xm-Xist imprinting was irreversible. In late preimplantation, Oct4 served as a chromatin opener to create transcriptional permissive states at Xm-Xist/Tsix genomic loci. In parthenogenetic embryos, Rnf12 overdose caused Xm-Xist derepression via Xm-Tsix repression; physiological Rnf12 levels were essential for Xm-Xist silencing maintenance in fertilized embryos. Thus, chromatin condensation and fine-tuning of Rnf12 dosage were crucial for Xist imprint maintenance by silencing Xm-Xist.
巻・号 12(10)
ページ e1006375
公開日 2016-10-1
DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006375
PII PGENETICS-D-16-01173
PMID 27788132
PMC PMC5082930
MeSH Animals Blastocyst Chromatin / genetics* Female Gene Dosage Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental Gene Silencing Genomic Imprinting Maternal Inheritance / genetics Mice Octamer Transcription Factor-3 / genetics* Parthenogenesis / genetics Paternal Inheritance / genetics RNA, Long Noncoding / biosynthesis RNA, Long Noncoding / genetics* Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases / biosynthesis Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases / genetics* X Chromosome Inactivation / genetics*
IF 5.175
引用数 4
WOS 分野 GENETICS & HEREDITY
リソース情報
実験動物マウス RBRC02655