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Reprogramming the Maternal Zebrafish Genome after Fertilization to Match the Paternal Methylation Pattern

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Potok, Magdalena E., Nix, David A., Parnell, Timothy J., Cairns, Bradley R.·2013·Cell

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SUMMARY Early vertebrate embryos must achieve totipotency and prepare for zygotic genome activation (ZGA). To understand this process, we determined the DNA methylation (DNAme) profiles of zebrafish gametes, embryos at different stages, and somatic muscle and compared them to gene activity and histone modifications. Sperm chromatin patterns are virtually identical to those at ZGA. Unexpectedly, the DNA of many oocyte genes important for germ-line functions (i.e., piwil1) or early development (i.e., hox genes) is methylated, but the loci are demethylated during zygotic cleavage stages to precisely the state observed in sperm, even in parthenogenetic embryos lacking a replicating paternal genome. Furthermore, this cohort constitutes the genes and loci that acquire DNAme during development (i.e., ZGA to muscle). Finally, DNA methyltransferase inhibition experiments suggest that DNAme silences particular gene and chromatin cohorts at ZGA, preventing their precocious expression. Thus, zebrafish achieve a totipotent chromatin state at ZGA through paternal genome competency and maternal genome DNAme reprogramming.

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Authors
Potok, M. E., Nix, D. A., Parnell, T. J., & Cairns, B. R.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-05
Volume
153
Issue
4
Pages
759-772
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
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W2077429965
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15.06
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journal article
Language
en
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Potok, M. E., Nix, D. A., Parnell, T. J., & Cairns, B. R. (2013). Reprogramming the Maternal Zebrafish Genome after Fertilization to Match the Paternal Methylation Pattern. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.04.030

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