作者:William A. Pastor、Utz J. Pape、Yun Huang、Hope R. Henderson、Ryan Lister、Myunggon Ko、Erin M. McLoughlin、Yevgeny Brudno、Sahasransu Mahapatra、Philipp Kapranov、Mamta Tahiliani、George Q. Daley、X. Shirley Liu、Joseph R. Ecker、Patrice M. Milos、Suneet Agarwal、Anjana Rao
DOI:10.1038/nature10102
日期:2011.5.19
The modified DNA base 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), sometimes called the sixth base, is present in the mammalian genome where it is generated by oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC; the fifth base) by enzymes of the Tet family. Four papers in this issue, from the Helin, Zhang, Rao and Reik laboratories, respectively, report on the genome-wide distribution of Tet1 and/or 5hmC in mouse embryonic stem cells using the ChIP-seq technique. Links between Tet1 and transcription regulation â both activation and repression â are revealed. Anjana Rao and colleagues also describe two alternative methods with increased sensitivity for mapping single 5hmC bases. In the associated News & Views, Nathalie Véron and Antoine H. F. M. Peters discuss what these and other recent papers reveal about the role of Tet proteins in regulating DNA methylation and gene expression. 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is a modified base present at low levels in diverse cell types in mammals1,2,3,4,5. 5hmC is generated by the TET family of Fe(II) and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent enzymes through oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC)1,2,4,5,6,7. 5hmC and TET proteins have been implicated in stem cell biology and cancer1,4,5,8,9, but information on the genome-wide distribution of 5hmC is limited. Here we describe two novel and specific approaches to profile the genomic localization of 5hmC. The first approach, termed GLIB (glucosylation, periodate oxidation, biotinylation) uses a combination of enzymatic and chemical steps to isolate DNA fragments containing as few as a single 5hmC. The second approach involves conversion of 5hmC to cytosine 5-methylenesulphonate (CMS) by treatment of genomic DNA with sodium bisulphite, followed by immunoprecipitation of CMS-containing DNA with a specific antiserum to CMS5. High-throughput sequencing of 5hmC-containing DNA from mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells showed strong enrichment within exons and near transcriptional start sites. 5hmC was especially enriched at the start sites of genes whose promoters bear dual histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) and histone 3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) marks. Our results indicate that 5hmC has a probable role in transcriptional regulation, and suggest a model in which 5hmC contributes to the âpoisedâ chromatin signature found at developmentally-regulated genes in ES cells.
经修饰的DNA碱基——5-羟甲基胞嘧啶(5hmC),有时被称为第六种碱基——存在于哺乳动物基因组中,它是由Ten结构的酶将第五种碱基5-甲基胞嘧啶(5mC)氧化而生成的。在最近的一期杂志中,来自Helin、Zhang、Rao和Reik实验室的四篇文章,分别报道了小鼠胚胎干细胞内Tet1和/或5hmC的全基因组分布,研究中使用的技术是染色质免疫沉淀-测序法(ChIP-seq)。文章揭示了Tet1与转录调控的关联——既包括活化也包括抑制,Anjana Rao与同事还提出了两种灵敏度更高的检测方法,用以对单碱基5hmC进行定位。在同期杂志的新闻与观点栏目中,Nathalie Véron和Antoine H. F. M. Peters对之前和这些文章一起发表的论文进行了讨论,论述了Tet蛋白在调控DNA甲基化和基因表达过程中所起的作用。5-羟甲基胞嘧啶(5hmC)是一种处于低水平的修饰碱基,在各类哺乳动物细胞中都有发现。5hmC是由TET家族的Fe(II)依赖型、2-氧戊二酸依赖型酶类通过氧化作用由5-甲基胞嘧啶(5mC)生成的。5hmC和TET蛋白已经被证明与干细胞生物学和癌症的发生具有关联,但关于5hmC全基因组分布的信息还不多。这里我们描述了两种全新且具有针对性的研究5hmC在基因组上位置的方法。第一种方法称为GLIB(葡糖基化,高碘酸盐氧化,生物素化),利用一系列酶法和化学手段,分离仅含少量5hmC的DNA短链。第二种方法是用亚硫酸氢盐处理基因组DNA,使其中的5hmC转化为胞嘧啶-5-亚甲砜(CMS),再利用特异性抗血清对含有CMS的DNA作免疫共沉淀。对含有5hmC的小鼠胚胎干细胞(ES)基因组进行高通量测序后我们发现,测序结果强烈富集于外显子位置和转录起始位点附近。在携带有组蛋白3赖氨酸27三甲基化(H3K27me3)和组蛋白3赖氨酸4三甲基化(H3K4me3)标记的基因上游启动子区,5hmC高度富集。我们的结果显示,5hmC很可能具有调控转录的功能,并提出了一种假设,即5hmC能够参与到ES干细胞中,赋予那些受发育调控的基因以"预备"的组蛋白特征。