期刊
BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION
卷 89, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
SOC STUDY REPRODUCTION
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.113258
关键词
chromatin; DOT1L; early development; embryo; epigenetics; H3K79 methylation; heterochromatin; histone modifications; preimplantation embryo
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [20062002]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20062002] Funding Source: KAKEN
The global chromatin configuration is dramatically remodeled during fertilization and early preimplantation development. Although the chromocenters, which are pericentromeric heterochromatin clusters, are observed in the nuclei of oocytes, they disappear after fertilization and then reappear at the fourcell stage. To elucidate the mechanism of this reorganization of heterochromatin, we investigated the expression and nuclear localization of DOT1L, which is involved in the regulation of heterochromatin structure through histone H3 lysine 79 (H3K79) methyltransferase activity, during preimplantation development. The Dot1L mRNA level was low at the two-cell stage. In the analysis by the immunocytochemistry, DOT1L protein was not observed in the nuclei at this stage. Microinjection of Flag-tagged Dot1L cRNA revealed that the DOT1L protein was localized in the nucleus of the embryos at the onecell and four-cell stages but not at the two-cell stage. However, C-terminus-truncated DOT1L was localized in the nucleus of two-cell-stage embryos. Expression of the truncated DOT1L caused hypermethylation on H3K79 and the formation of chromocenter-like structures at the two-cell stage. Intriguingly, the expression of catalytically inactive truncated DOT1L also caused the formation of chromocenter-like structures without an increase in H3K79 methylation. Most embryos expressing the truncated DOT1L or its inactive form were arrested at the twocell stage. These results suggest that the absence of DOT1L, which is involved in the formation of a specific configuration of heterochromatin at the two-cell stage, is essential for early preimplantation development.
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