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PLoS Comput Biol ; 18(1): e1009755, 2022 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35030161

RESUMO

Morphogenesis is a precise and robust dynamic process during metazoan embryogenesis, consisting of both cell proliferation and cell migration. Despite the fact that much is known about specific regulations at molecular level, how cell proliferation and migration together drive the morphogenesis at cellular and organismic levels is not well understood. Using Caenorhabditis elegans as the model animal, we present a phase field model to compute early embryonic morphogenesis within a confined eggshell. With physical information about cell division obtained from three-dimensional time-lapse cellular imaging experiments, the model can precisely reproduce the early morphogenesis process as seen in vivo, including time evolution of location and morphology of each cell. Furthermore, the model can be used to reveal key cell-cell attractions critical to the development of C. elegans embryo. Our work demonstrates how genetic programming and physical forces collaborate to drive morphogenesis and provides a predictive model to decipher the underlying mechanism.


Assuntos
Caenorhabditis elegans/embriologia , Embrião não Mamífero/fisiologia , Desenvolvimento Embrionário/fisiologia , Modelos Biológicos , Animais , Biologia Computacional
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BMC Genomics ; 23(1): 238, 2022 Mar 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35346033

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Ribosomal DNAs (rDNAs) are arranged in purely tandem repeats, preventing them from being reliably assembled onto chromosomes during generation of genome assembly. The uncertainty of rDNA genomic structure presents a significant barrier for studying their function and evolution. RESULTS: Here we generate ultra-long Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and short NGS reads to delineate the architecture and variation of the 5S rDNA cluster in the different strains of C. elegans and C. briggsae. We classify the individual rDNA's repeating units into 25 types based on the unique sequence variations in each unit of C. elegans (N2). We next perform assembly of the cluster by taking advantage of the long reads that carry these units, which led to an assembly of 5S rDNA cluster consisting of up to 167 consecutive 5S rDNA units in the N2 strain. The ordering and copy number of various rDNA units are consistent with the separation time between strains. Surprisingly, we observed a drastically reduced level of variation in the unit composition in the 5S rDNA cluster in the C. elegans CB4856 and C. briggsae AF16 strains than in the C. elegans N2 strain, suggesting that N2, a widely used reference strain, is likely to be defective in maintaining the 5S rDNA cluster stability compared with other wild isolates of C. elegans or C. briggsae. CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate that Nanopore DNA sequencing reads are capable of generating assembly of highly repetitive sequences, and rDNA units are highly dynamic both within and between population(s) of the same species in terms of sequence and copy number. The detailed structure and variation of the 5S rDNA units within the rDNA cluster pave the way for functional and evolutionary studies.


Assuntos
Caenorhabditis elegans , RNA Ribossômico 5S , Animais , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , DNA Ribossômico/genética , Genômica , RNA Ribossômico 5S/genética , Sequências Repetitivas de Ácido Nucleico/genética
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Nat Commun ; 15(1): 15, 2024 01 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38167730

RESUMO

SETDB1 is an essential histone methyltransferase that deposits histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation (H3K9me3) to transcriptionally repress genes and repetitive elements. The function of differential H3K9me3 enrichment between cell-types remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate mutual exclusivity of H3K9me3 and CTCF across mouse tissues from different developmental timepoints. We analyze SETDB1 depleted cells and discover that H3K9me3 prevents aberrant CTCF binding independently of DNA methylation and H3K9me2. Such sites are enriched with SINE B2 retrotransposons. Moreover, analysis of higher-order genome architecture reveals that large chromatin structures including topologically associated domains and subnuclear compartments, remain intact in SETDB1 depleted cells. However, chromatin loops and local 3D interactions are disrupted, leading to transcriptional changes by modifying pre-existing chromatin landscapes. Specific genes with altered expression show differential interactions with dysregulated cis-regulatory elements. Collectively, we find that cell-type specific targets of SETDB1 maintain cellular identities by modulating CTCF binding, which shape nuclear architecture and transcriptomic networks.


Assuntos
Cromatina , Histonas , Animais , Camundongos , Histonas/metabolismo , Metilação de DNA , Retroelementos , Sequências Reguladoras de Ácido Nucleico , Histona-Lisina N-Metiltransferase/genética , Histona-Lisina N-Metiltransferase/metabolismo
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Nat Cell Biol ; 25(7): 1047-1060, 2023 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37400500

RESUMO

During pregnancy the maternal-fetal interface plays vital roles in fetal development. Its disruption is frequently found in pregnancy complications. Recent studies show increased incidences of adverse pregnancy outcomes in patients with COVID-19; however, the mechanism remains unclear. Here we analysed the molecular impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the maternal-fetal interface. Generating bulk and single-nucleus transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles from patients with COVID-19 and control samples, we discovered aberrant immune activation and angiogenesis patterns in distinct cells from patients. Surprisingly, retrotransposons were also dysregulated in specific cell types. Notably, reduced enhancer activities of LTR8B elements were functionally linked to the downregulation of pregnancy-specific glycoprotein genes in syncytiotrophoblasts. Our findings revealed that SARS-CoV-2 infection induced substantial changes to the epigenome and transcriptome at the maternal-fetal interface, which may be associated with pregnancy complications.


Assuntos
COVID-19 , Complicações Infecciosas na Gravidez , Gravidez , Feminino , Humanos , COVID-19/genética , Transcriptoma , SARS-CoV-2 , Epigenômica , Complicações Infecciosas na Gravidez/genética , Análise de Célula Única
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Front Cell Dev Biol ; 10: 978962, 2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36393848

RESUMO

Early embryonic cell cycles usually alternate between S and M phases without any gap phase. When the gap phases are developmentally introduced in various cell types remains poorly defined especially during embryogenesis. To establish the cell-specific introduction of gap phases in embryo, we generate multiple fluorescence ubiquitin cell cycle indicators (FUCCI) in C. elegans. Time-lapse 3D imaging followed by lineal expression profiling reveals sharp and differential accumulation of the FUCCI reporters, allowing the systematic demarcation of cell cycle phases throughout embryogenesis. Accumulation of the reporters reliably identifies both G1 and G2 phases only in two embryonic cells with an extended cell cycle length, suggesting that the remaining cells divide either without a G1 phase, or with a brief G1 phase that is too short to be picked up by our reporters. In summary, we provide an initial picture of gap phase introduction in a metazoan embryo. The newly developed FUCCI reporters pave the way for further characterization of developmental control of cell cycle progression.

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Nat Commun ; 11(1): 6254, 2020 12 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33288755

RESUMO

The invariant development and transparent body of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans enables complete delineation of cell lineages throughout development. Despite extensive studies of cell division, cell migration and cell fate differentiation, cell morphology during development has not yet been systematically characterized in any metazoan, including C. elegans. This knowledge gap substantially hampers many studies in both developmental and cell biology. Here we report an automatic pipeline, CShaper, which combines automated segmentation of fluorescently labeled membranes with automated cell lineage tracing. We apply this pipeline to quantify morphological parameters of densely packed cells in 17 developing C. elegans embryos. Consequently, we generate a time-lapse 3D atlas of cell morphology for the C. elegans embryo from the 4- to 350-cell stages, including cell shape, volume, surface area, migration, nucleus position and cell-cell contact with resolved cell identities. We anticipate that CShaper and the morphological atlas will stimulate and enhance further studies in the fields of developmental biology, cell biology and biomechanics.


Assuntos
Caenorhabditis elegans/embriologia , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Aprendizado Profundo , Embrião não Mamífero/citologia , Desenvolvimento Embrionário , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular/fisiologia , Linhagem da Célula/fisiologia , Movimento Celular/fisiologia , Embrião não Mamífero/embriologia , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/genética , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/metabolismo , Imageamento Tridimensional/métodos , Microscopia de Fluorescência/métodos , Morfogênese , Software
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Genetics ; 209(1): 37-49, 2018 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29567658

RESUMO

Intercellular signaling interactions play a key role in breaking fate symmetry during animal development. Identification of signaling interactions at cellular resolution is technically challenging, especially in a developing embryo. Here, we develop a platform that allows automated inference and validation of signaling interactions for every cell cycle of Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis. This is achieved by the generation of a systems-level cell contact map, which consists of 1114 highly confident intercellular contacts, by modeling analysis and is validated through cell membrane labeling coupled with cell lineage analysis. We apply the map to identify cell pairs between which a Notch signaling interaction takes place. By generating expression patterns for two ligands and two receptors of the Notch signaling pathway with cellular resolution using the automated expression profiling technique, we are able to refine existing and identify novel Notch interactions during C. elegans embryogenesis. Targeted cell ablation followed by cell lineage analysis demonstrates the roles of signaling interactions during cell division in breaking fate symmetry. Finally, we describe the development of a website that allows online access to the cell-cell contact map for mapping of other signaling interactions by the community. The platform can be adapted to establish cellular interactions from any other signaling pathway.


Assuntos
Ciclo Celular , Desenvolvimento Embrionário , Transdução de Sinais , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados , Biomarcadores , Caenorhabditis elegans/embriologia , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Comunicação Celular , Linhagem da Célula , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Dosagem de Genes , Ligação Proteica , Receptores Notch/metabolismo , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Transgenes
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