The enzymatic activities of MLL3 and MLL4 are critical for embryonic development and embryonic stem cell differentiation.
H3K4me1 methyltransferases MLL3 (KMT2C) and MLL4 (KMT2D) are critical for enhancer activation, cell differentiation and development. However, roles of MLL3/4 enzymatic activities and MLL3/4-mediated enhancer H3K4me1 in these processes remain unclear. Here we report that constitutive elimination of both MLL3 and MLL4 enzymatic activities prevents initiation of gastrulation and leads to early embryonic lethality in mice. However, selective elimination of MLL3/4 enzymatic activities in embryonic, but not extraembryonic, lineages leaves gastrulation largely intact. Consistent with this, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) lacking MLL3/4 enzymatic activities can differentiate toward the three embryonic germ layers but show aberrant differentiation to extraembryonic endoderm (ExEn) and trophectoderm. The failure in ExEn differentiation can be attributed to markedly reduced enhancer-binding of the lineage-determining transcription factor GATA6. Furthermore, we show that MLL3/4-catalyzed H3K4me1 is largely dispensable for enhancer activation during ESC differentiation. Together, our findings suggest a lineage-selective, but enhancer activation-independent, role of MLL3/4 methyltransferase activities in early embryonic development and ESC differentiation. Disruption of MLL3/4 enzymatic activities prevents gastrulation and leads to early embryonic lethality in mice. This is largely due to defects in extraembryonic lineages, which compromise developmental progression.
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