Genome-wide bisulfite sequencing in zygotes identifies demethylation targets and maps the contribution of TET3 oxidation.
Genome-wide bisulfite sequencing in zygotes identifies demethylation targets and maps the contribution of TET3 oxidation.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.celrep.2014.11.034
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发表时间:
2014-12-24
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8.8
通讯作者:
Reik W
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作者:
Peat JR;Dean W;Clark SJ;Krueger F;Smallwood SA;Ficz G;Kim JK;Marioni JC;Hore TA;Reik W
Fertilization triggers global erasure of paternal 5-methylcytosine as part of epigenetic reprogramming during the transition from gametic specialization to totipotency. This involves oxidation by TET3, but our understanding of its targets and the wider context of demethylation is limited to a small fraction of the genome. We employed an optimized bisulfite strategy to generate genome-wide methylation profiles of control and TET3-deficient zygotes, using SNPs to access paternal alleles. This revealed that in addition to pervasive removal from intergenic sequences and most retrotransposons, gene bodies constitute a major target of zygotic demethylation. Methylation loss is associated with zygotic genome activation and at gene bodies is also linked to increased transcriptional noise in early development. Our data map the primary contribution of oxidative demethylation to a subset of gene bodies and intergenic sequences and implicate redundant pathways at many loci. Unexpectedly, we demonstrate that TET3 activity also protects certain CpG islands against methylation buildup. An enhanced bisulfite strategy allows genome-wide methylation profiling of zygotes Gene bodies constitute a major target of zygotic demethylation and TET3 oxidation The impact of TET3 loss is moderate and implicates redundant demethylation pathways Protective TET3 activity shields certain CpG islands against methylation buildup Peat et al. employ whole-genome bisulfite sequencing to generate a global picture of the profound DNA methylation reprogramming that is triggered by fertilization. This identifies gene bodies as a major demethylation target where TET3 oxidation plays an important role and uncovers a protective TET3 function as well as redundancy in the demethylation machinery.