Transition of Differential Histone H3 Methylation in Photoreceptors and Other Retinal Cells During Retinal Differentiation

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2016 Jul 6

PMID 27377164

Citations 22

Authors

Kazuko Ueno

Toshiro Iwagawa

Hiroshi Kuribayashi

Yukihiro Baba

Hiromitsu Nakauchi

Akira Murakami

Masao Nagasaki

Yutaka Suzuki

Sumiko Watanabe

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Abstract

To analyze cell lineage-specific transitions in global transcriptional and epigenetic changes during retinogenesis, we purified retinal cells from normal mice during postnatal development into two fractions, namely, photoreceptors and other retinal cells, based on Cd73 expression, and performed RNA sequencing and ChIP sequencing of H3K27me3 and H3K4me3. Genes expressed in the photoreceptor lineage were marked with H3K4me3 in the Cd73-positive cell fraction; however, the level of H3K27me3 was very low in both Cd73-positive and -negative populations. H3K27me3 may be involved in spatio-temporal onset of a subset of bipolar-related genes. Subsets of genes expressed in amacrine and retinal ganglion cells, which are early-born retinal cell types, were suggested to be maintained in a silent state by H3K27me3 during late-stage retinogenesis. In the outer nuclear layer, upregulation of Rho and rod-related genes were observed in Ezh2-ablated retina, suggesting a role for H3K27me3 in the maintenance of proper expression levels. Taken together, our data on the transition of lineage-specific molecular signatures during development suggest that histone methylation is involved in retinal differentiation and maintenance through cell lineage-specific mechanisms.

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