ZFP57 Maintains the Parent-of-origin-specific Expression of the Imprinted Genes and Differentially Affects Non-imprinted Targets in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2016 Jun 4

PMID 27257070

Citations 38

Authors

Vincenzo Riso

Marco Cammisa

Harpreet Kukreja

Zahra Anvar

Gaetano Verde

Angela Sparago

Basilia Acurzio

Shraddha Lad

Enza Lonardo

Aditya Sankar

Kristian Helin

Robert Feil

Annalisa Fico

Claudia Angelini

Giovanna Grimaldi

Andrea Riccio

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Abstract

ZFP57 is necessary for maintaining repressive epigenetic modifications at Imprinting control regions (ICRs). In mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs), ZFP57 binds ICRs (ICRBS) and many other loci (non-ICRBS). To address the role of ZFP57 on all its target sites, we performed high-throughput and multi-locus analyses of inbred and hybrid mouse ESC lines carrying different gene knockouts. By using an allele-specific RNA-seq approach, we demonstrate that ZFP57 loss results in derepression of the imprinted allele of multiple genes in the imprinted clusters. We also find marked epigenetic differences between ICRBS and non-ICRBS suggesting that different cis-acting regulatory functions are repressed by ZFP57 at these two classes of target loci. Overall, these data demonstrate that ZFP57 is pivotal to maintain the allele-specific epigenetic modifications of ICRs that in turn are necessary for maintaining the imprinted expression over long distances. At non-ICRBS, ZFP57 inactivation results in acquisition of epigenetic features that are characteristic of poised enhancers, suggesting that another function of ZFP57 in early embryogenesis is to repress cis-acting regulatory elements whose activity is not yet required.

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