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The Transcriptionally Permissive Chromatin State of Embryonic Stem Cells Is Acutely Tuned to Translational Output

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Bulut-Karslioglu, Aydan, Macrae, Trisha A., Oses-Prieto, Juan A., Covarrubias, Sergio, Percharde, Michelle, Ku, Gregory, Diaz, Aaron, McManus, Michael T. +2 more·2018·Cell Stem Cell

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Abstract

A permissive chromatin environment coupled to hypertranscription drives the rapid proliferation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and peri-implantation embryos. We carried out a genome-wide screen to systematically dissect the regulation of the euchromatic state of ESCs. The results revealed that cellular growth pathways, most prominently translation, perpetuate the euchromatic state and hypertranscription of ESCs. Acute inhibition of translation rapidly depletes euchromatic marks in mouse ESCs and blastocysts, concurrent with delocalization of RNA polymerase II and reduction in nascent transcription. Translation inhibition promotes rewiring of chromatin accessibility, which decreases at a subset of active developmental enhancers and increases at histone genes and transposable elements. Proteome-scale analyses revealed that several euchromatin regulators are unstable proteins and continuously depend on a high translational output. We propose that this mechanistic interdependence of euchromatin, transcription, and translation sets the pace of proliferation at peri-implantation and may be employed by other stem/progenitor cells.

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Bulut-Karslioglu, A., Macrae, T. A., Oses-Prieto, J. A., Covarrubias, S., Percharde, M., Ku, G., Diaz, A., McManus, M. T., Burlingame, A. L., & Ramalho-Santos, M.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Venue
Cell Stem Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-03
Volume
22
Issue
3
Pages
369-383.e8
ISSN
  • 1875-9777 (ISSN-L)
  • 1934-5909
OpenAlex
W2792650071
Cited by
97
References
87
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 8
FWCI
4.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell stem cell (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation (R01GM113014, 1F30HD093116, R 01GM123556)
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  • Diabetes Research Center (P30 DK063720)
  • National Institutes of Health (5P30CA082103)
  • Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation (U01MH105028)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Keywords
embryonic stem cells, euchromatin, chromatin accessibility, translation (biology), RNA polymerase II, nascent transcription, developmental enhancers, histone genes, transposable elements, protein stability, stem cell proliferation, peri-implantation embryo, blastocyst, genome-wide screen
MeSH terms
Animals, Blastocyst, Cell Differentiation, Chromatin, DNA Transposable Elements, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Female, Male, Models, Biological, Nuclear Proteins, Transcription, Genetic, Protein Biosynthesis, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, Genome, Euchromatin, RNA Interference, Histone Code, Mice, Embryonic Stem Cells, Protein Stability, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases

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