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Genetics
2023 Oct 04;2252:. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad145.
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Widespread priming of transcriptional regulatory elements by incipient accessibility or RNA polymerase II pause in early embryos of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
Abstract
Transcriptional regulatory elements (TREs) are the primary nodes that control developmental gene regulatory networks. In embryo stages, larvae, and adult differentiated red spherule cells of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, transcriptionally engaged TREs are detected by Precision Run-On Sequencing (PRO-seq), which maps genome-wide at base pair resolution the location of paused or elongating RNA polymerase II (Pol II). In parallel, TRE accessibility is estimated by the Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using Sequencing (ATAC-seq). Our analysis identifies surprisingly early and widespread TRE accessibility in 4-cell cleavage embryos that is not necessarily followed by concurrent or subsequent transcription. TRE transcriptional differences identified by PRO-seq provide more contrast among embryonic stages than ATAC-seq accessibility differences, in agreement with the apparent excess of accessible but inactive TREs during embryogenesis. Global TRE accessibility reaches a maximum around the 20-hour late blastula stage, which coincides with the consolidation of major embryo regionalizations and peak histone variant H2A.Z expression. A transcriptional potency model based on labile nucleosome TRE occupancy driven by DNA sequences and the prevalence of histone variants is proposed in order to explain the basal accessibility of transcriptionally inactive TREs during embryogenesis. However, our results would not reconcile well with labile nucleosome models based on simple A/T sequence enrichment. In addition, a large number of distal TREs become transcriptionally disengaged during developmental progression, in support of an early Pol II paused model for developmental gene regulation that eventually resolves in transcriptional activation or silencing. Thus, developmental potency in early embryos may be facilitated by incipient accessibility and transcriptional pause at TREs.
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