Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 148, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.196329
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PRC2; H3K27 methylation; EZH2; Differentiation; Maintenance; Embryoid body
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- National Institutes of Health [R35-GM131743, R37-GM048405]
- Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award Program [2018A012748]
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The study showed that full methylation of H3K27 was not necessary for the formation of differentiated cell states during embryoid body formation, but was required to maintain a stable differentiated state.
Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) catalyzes methylation of histone H3 on lysine 27 and is required for normal development of complex eukaryotes. The nature of that requirement is not clear. H3K27me3 is associated with repressed genes, but the modification is not sufficient to induce repression and, in some instances, is not required. We blocked full methylation of H3K27 with both a small molecule inhibitor, GSK343, and by introducing a point mutation into EZH2, the catalytic subunit of PRC2, in the mouse CJ7 cell line. Cells with substantively decreased H3K27 methylation differentiate into embryoid bodies, which contrasts with EZH2 null cells. PRC2 targets had varied requirements for H3K27me3, with a subset that maintained normal levels of repression in the absence of methylation. The primary cellular phenotype of blocked H3K27 methylation was an inability of altered cells to maintain a differentiated state when challenged. This phenotype was determined by H3K27 methylation in embryonic stem cells through the first 4 days of differentiation. Full H3K27 methylation therefore was not necessary for formation of differentiated cell states during embryoid body formation but was required to maintain a stable differentiated state.
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