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2. Combinatorial single-cell CRISPR screens by direct guide RNA capture and targeted sequencing
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Replogle, Joseph M., Norman, Thomas M., Xu, Albert, Hussmann, Jeffrey A., Chen, Jin, Cogan, J. Zachery, Meer, Elliott J., Terry, Jessica M., Riordan, Daniel P., Srinivas, Niranjan, Fiddes, Ian T., Arthur, Joseph G., Alvarado, Luigi J., Pfeiffer, Katherine A., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Weissman, Jonathan S., and Adamson, Britt
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- 2020
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3. Systematic dissection of genomic features determining transcription factor binding and enhancer function
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Grossman, Sharon R., Zhang, Xiaolan, Wang, Li, Engreitz, Jesse, Melnikov, Alexandre, Rogov, Peter, Tewhey, Ryan, Isakova, Alina, Deplancke, Bart, Bernstein, Bradley E., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Lander, Eric S.
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- 2017
4. A distant trophoblast-specific enhancer controls HLA-G expression at the maternal–fetal interface
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Ferreira, Leonardo M. R., Meissner, Torsten B., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Mallard, William, O’Donnell, Charles W., Tilburgs, Tamara, Gomes, Hannah A. B., Camahort, Raymond, Sherwood, Richard I., Gifford, David K., Rinn, John L., Cowan, Chad A., and Strominger, Jack L.
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- 2016
5. Genome-Scale CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout Screening in Human Cells
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Shalem, Ophir, Sanjana, Neville E., Hartenian, Ella, Shi, Xi, Scott, David A., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Heckl, Dirk, Ebert, Benjamin L., Root, David E., Doench, John G., and Zhang, Feng
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- 2014
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6. Dissecting neural differentiation regulatory networks through epigenetic footprinting
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Ziller, Michael J., Edri, Reuven, Yaffe, Yakey, Donaghey, Julie, Pop, Ramona, Mallard, William, Issner, Robbyn, Gifford, Casey A., Goren, Alon, Xing, Jeffrey, Gu, Hongcang, Cacchiarelli, Davide, Tsankov, Alexander M., Epstein, Charles, Rinn, John L., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Kohlbacher, Oliver, Gnirke, Andreas, Bernstein, Bradley E., Elkabetz, Yechiel, and Meissner, Alexander
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Neural circuitry -- Research ,Genetic research ,Stem cells -- Genetic aspects ,Neurological research ,Cell differentiation -- Research ,Epigenetic inheritance -- Research ,Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Models derived from human pluripotent stem cells that accurately recapitulate neural development in vitro and allow for the generation of specific neuronal subtypes are of major interest to the stem cell and biomedical community. Notch signalling, particularly through the Notch effector HES5, is a major pathway critical for the onset and maintenance of neural progenitor cells in the embryonic and adult nervous system (1-3). Here we report the transcriptional and epigenomic analysis of six consecutive neural progenitor cell stages derived from a HES5::eGFP reporter human embryonic stem cell line (4). Using this system, we aimed to model cell-fate decisions including specification, expansion and patterning during the ontogeny of cortical neural stem and progenitor cells. In order to dissect regulatory mechanisms that orchestrate the stage-specific differentiation process, we developed a computational framework to infer key regulators of each cell-state transition based on the progressive remodelling of the epigenetic landscape and then validated these through a pooled short hairpin RNA screen. We were also able to refine our previous observations on epigenetic priming at transcription factor binding sites and suggest here that they are mediated by combinations of core and stage-specific factors. Taken together, we demonstrate the utility of our system and outline a general framework, not limited to the context of the neural lineage, to dissect regulatory circuits of differentiation., We used the human embryonic stem (ES) cell line WA9 (also known as H9) expressing GFP under the HES5 promoter (4) to isolate defined neural progenitor populations of neuroepithelial (NE), [...]
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7. An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome
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Dunham, Ian, Kundaje, Anshul, Aldred, Shelley F., Collins, Patrick J., Davis, Carrie A., Doyle, Francis, Epstein, Charles B., Frietze, Seth, Harrow, Jennifer, Kaul, Rajinder, Khatun, Jainab, Lajoie, Bryan R., Landt, Stephen G., Lee, Bum-Kyu, Pauli, Florencia, Rosenbloom, Kate R., Sabo, Peter, Safi, Alexias, Sanyal, Amartya, Shoresh, Noam, Simon, Jeremy M., Song, Lingyun, Trinklein, Nathan D., Altshuler, Robert C., Birney, Ewan, Brown, James B., Cheng, Chao, Djebali, Sarah, Dong, Xianjun, Ernst, Jason, Furey, Terrence S., Gerstein, Mark, Giardine, Belinda, Greven, Melissa, Hardison, Ross C., Harris, Robert S., Herrero, Javier, Hoffman, Michael M., Iyer, Sowmya, Kellis, Manolis, Kheradpour, Pouya, Lassmann, Timo, Li, Qunhua, Lin, Xinying, Marinov, Georgi K., Merkel, Angelika, Mortazavi, Ali, Parker, Stephen C. J., Reddy, Timothy E., Rozowsky, Joel, Schlesinger, Felix, Thurman, Robert E., Wang, Jie, Ward, Lucas D., Whitfield, Troy W., Wilder, Steven P., Wu, Weisheng, Xi, Hualin S., Yip, Kevin Y., Zhuang, Jiali, Bernstein, Bradley E., Green, Eric D., Gunter, Chris, Snyder, Michael, Pazin, Michael J., Lowdon, Rebecca F., Dillon, Laura A. L., Adams, Leslie B., Kelly, Caroline J., Zhang, Julia, Wexler, Judith R., Good, Peter J., Feingold, Elise A., Crawford, Gregory E., Dekker, Job, Elnitski, Laura, Farnham, Peggy J., Giddings, Morgan C., Gingeras, Thomas R., Guigo, Roderic, Hubbard, Timothy J., Kent, W. James, Lieb, Jason D., Margulies, Elliott H., Myers, Richard M., Stamatoyannopoulos, John A., Tenenbaum, Scott A., Weng, Zhiping, White, Kevin P., Wold, Barbara, Yu, Yanbao, Wrobel, John, Risk, Brian A., Gunawardena, Harsha P., Kuiper, Heather C., Maier, Christopher W., Xie, Ling, Chen, Xian, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Gillespie, Shawn, Goren, Alon, Ram, Oren, Zhang, Xiaolan, Wang, Li, Issner, Robbyn, Coyne, Michael J., Durham, Timothy, Ku, Manching, Truong, Thanh, Eaton, Matthew L., Dobin, Alex, Tanzer, Andrea, Lagarde, Julien, Lin, Wei, Xue, Chenghai, Williams, Brian A., Zaleski, Chris, Roder, Maik, Kokocinski, Felix, Abdelhamid, Rehab F., Alioto, Tyler, Antoshechkin, Igor, Baer, Michael T., Batut, Philippe, Bell, Ian, Bell, Kimberly, Chakrabortty, Sudipto, Chrast, Jacqueline, Curado, Joao, Derrien, Thomas, Drenkow, Jorg, Dumais, Erica, Dumais, Jackie, Duttagupta, Radha, Fastuca, Megan, Fejes-Toth, Kata, Ferreira, Pedro, Foissac, Sylvain, Fullwood, Melissa J., Gao, Hui, Gonzalez, David, Gordon, Assaf, Howald, Cedric, Jha, Sonali, Johnson, Rory, Kapranov, Philipp, King, Brandon, Kingswood, Colin, Li, Guoliang, Luo, Oscar J., Park, Eddie, Preall, Jonathan B., Presaud, Kimberly, Ribeca, Paolo, Robyr, Daniel, Ruan, Xiaoan, Sammeth, Michael, Sandhu, Kuljeet Singh, Schaeffer, Lorain, See, Lei-Hoon, Shahab, Atif, Skancke, Jorgen, Suzuki, Ana Maria, Takahashi, Hazuki, Tilgner, Hagen, Trout, Diane, Walters, Nathalie, Wang, Huaien, Hayashizaki, Yoshihide, Reymond, Alexandre, Antonarakis, Stylianos E., Hannon, Gregory J., Ruan, Yijun, Carninci, Piero, Sloan, Cricket A., Learned, Katrina, Malladi, Venkat S., Wong, Matthew C., Barber, Galt P., Cline, Melissa S., Dreszer, Timothy R., Heitner, Steven G., Karolchik, Donna, Kirkup, Vanessa M., Meyer, Laurence R., Long, Jeffrey C., Maddren, Morgan, Raney, Brian J., Grasfeder, Linda L., Giresi, Paul G., Battenhouse, Anna, Sheffield, Nathan C., Showers, Kimberly A., London, Darin, Bhinge, Akshay A., Shestak, Christopher, Schaner, Matthew R., Ki Kim, Seul, Zhang, Zhuzhu Z., Mieczkowski, Piotr A., Mieczkowska, Joanna O., Liu, Zheng, McDaniell, Ryan M., Ni, Yunyun, Rashid, Naim U., Kim, Min Jae, Adar, Sheera, Zhang, Zhancheng, Wang, Tianyuan, Winter, Deborah, Keefe, Damian, Iyer, Vishwanath R., Zheng, Meizhen, Wang, Ping, Gertz, Jason, Vielmetter, Jost, Partridge, E., Varley, Katherine E., Gasper, Clarke, Bansal, Anita, Pepke, Shirley, Jain, Preti, Amrhein, Henry, Bowling, Kevin M., Anaya, Michael, Cross, Marie K., Muratet, Michael A., Newberry, Kimberly M., McCue, Kenneth, Nesmith, Amy S., Fisher-Aylor, Katherine I., Pusey, Barbara, DeSalvo, Gilberto, Parker, Stephanie L., Balasubramanian, Sreeram, Davis, Nicholas S., Meadows, Sarah K., Eggleston, Tracy, Newberry, J. Scott, Levy, Shawn E., Absher, Devin M., Wong, Wing H., Blow, Matthew J., Visel, Axel, Pennachio, Len A., Petrykowska, Hanna M., Abyzov, Alexej, Aken, Bronwen, Barrell, Daniel, Barson, Gemma, Berry, Andrew, Bignell, Alexandra, Boychenko, Veronika, Bussotti, Giovanni, Davidson, Claire, Despacio-Reyes, Gloria, Diekhans, Mark, Ezkurdia, Iakes, Frankish, Adam, Gilbert, James, Gonzalez, Jose Manuel, Griffiths, Ed, Harte, Rachel, Hendrix, David A., Hunt, Toby, Jungreis, Irwin, Kay, Mike, Khurana, Ekta, Leng, Jing, Lin, Michael F., Loveland, Jane, Lu, Zhi, Manthravadi, Deepa, Mariotti, Marco, Mudge, Jonathan, Mukherjee, Gaurab, Notredame, Cedric, Pei, Baikang, Rodriguez, Jose Manuel, Saunders, Gary, Sboner, Andrea, Searle, Stephen, Sisu, Cristina, Snow, Catherine, Steward, Charlie, Tapanari, Electra, Tress, Michael L., van Baren, Marijke J., Washietl, Stefan, Wilming, Laurens, Zadissa, Amonida, Zhang, Zhengdong, Brent, Michael, Haussler, David, Valencia, Alfonso, Addleman, Nick, Alexander, Roger P., Auerbach, Raymond K., Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Bettinger, Keith, Bhardwaj, Nitin, Boyle, Alan P., Cao, Alina R., Cayting, Philip, Charos, Alexandra, Cheng, Yong, Eastman, Catharine, Euskirchen, Ghia, Fleming, Joseph D., Grubert, Fabian, Habegger, Lukas, Hariharan, Manoj, Harmanci, Arif, Iyengar, Sushma, Jin, Victor X., Karczewski, Konrad J., Kasowski, Maya, Lacroute, Phil, Lam, Hugo, Lamarre-Vincent, Nathan, Lian, Jin, Lindahl-Allen, Marianne, Min, Renqiang, Miotto, Benoit, Monahan, Hannah, Moqtaderi, Zarmik, Mu, Xinmeng J., Ouyang, Zhengqing, Patacsil, Dorrelyn, Raha, Debasish, Ramirez, Lucia, Reed, Brian, Shi, Minyi, Slifer, Teri, Witt, Heather, Wu, Linfeng, Xu, Xiaoqin, Yan, Koon-Kiu, Yang, Xinqiong, Struhl, Kevin, Weissman, Sherman M., Penalva, Luiz O., Karmakar, Subhradip, Bhanvadia, Raj R., Choudhury, Alina, Domanus, Marc, Ma, Lijia, Moran, Jennifer, Victorsen, Alec, Auer, Thomas, Centanin, Lazaro, Eichenlaub, Michael, Gruhl, Franziska, Heermann, Stephan, Hoeckendorf, Burkhard, Inoue, Daigo, Kellner, Tanja, Kirchmaier, Stephan, Mueller, Claudia, Reinhardt, Robert, Schertel, Lea, Schneider, Stephanie, Sinn, Rebecca, Wittbrodt, Beate, Wittbrodt, Jochen, Partridge, E. Christopher, Jain, Gaurav, Balasundaram, Gayathri, Bates, Daniel L., Byron, Rachel, Canfield, Theresa K., Diegel, Morgan J., Dunn, Douglas, Ebersol, Abigail K., Frum, Tristan, Garg, Kavita, Gist, Erica, Hansen, R. Scott, Boatman, Lisa, Haugen, Eric, Humbert, Richard, Johnson, Audra K., Johnson, Ericka M., Kutyavin, Tattyana V., Lee, Kristen, Lotakis, Dimitra, Maurano, Matthew T., Neph, Shane J., Neri, Fiedencio V., Nguyen, Eric D., Qu, Hongzhu, Reynolds, Alex P., Roach, Vaughn, Rynes, Eric, Sanchez, Minerva E., Sandstrom, Richard S., Shafer, Anthony O., Stergachis, Andrew B., Thomas, Sean, Vernot, Benjamin, Vierstra, Jeff, Vong, Shinny, Weaver, Molly A., Yan, Yongqi, Zhang, Miaohua, Akey, Joshua M., Bender, Michael, Dorschner, Michael O., Groudine, Mark, MacCoss, Michael J., Navas, Patrick, Stamatoyannopoulos, George, Beal, Kathryn, Brazma, Alvis, Flicek, Paul, Johnson, Nathan, Lukk, Margus, Luscombe, Nicholas M., Sobral, Daniel, Vaquerizas, Juan M., Batzoglou, Serafim, Sidow, Arend, Hussami, Nadine, Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou, Sofia, Libbrecht, Max W., Schaub, Marc A., Miller, Webb, Bickel, Peter J., Banfai, Balazs, Boley, Nathan P., Huang, Haiyan, Li, Jingyi Jessica, Noble, William Stafford, Bilmes, Jeffrey A., Buske, Orion J., Sahu, Avinash D., Kharchenko, Peter V., Park, Peter J., Baker, Dannon, Taylor, James, and Lochovsky, Lucas
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Genetic research ,Human genome -- Research ,Genetic transcription -- Research ,Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
The human genome encodes the blueprint of life, but the function of the vast majority of its nearly three billion bases is unknown. The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has systematically mapped regions of transcription, transcription factor association, chromatin structure and histone modification. These data enabled us to assign biochemical functions for 80% of the genome, in particular outside of the well-studied protein-coding regions. Many discovered candidate regulatory elements are physically associated with one another and with expressed genes, providing new insights into the mechanisms of gene regulation. The newly identified elements also show a statistical correspondence to sequence variants linked to human disease, and can thereby guide interpretation of this variation. Overall, the project provides new insights into the organization and regulation of our genes and genome, and is an expansive resource of functional annotations for biomedical research., Author(s): The ENCODE Project Consortium; Overall coordination (data analysis coordination); Ian Dunham [2]; Anshul Kundaje [3, 82]; Data production leads (data production); Shelley F. Aldred [4]; Patrick J. Collins [4]; [...]
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- 2012
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8. A unique regulatory phase of DNA methylation in the early mammalian embryo
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Smith, Zachary D., Chan, Michelle M., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Gu, Hongcang, Gnirke, Andreas, Regev, Aviv, and Meissner, Alexander
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Methylation -- Genetic aspects -- Physiological aspects ,Embryonic development -- Genetic aspects ,Molecular biology -- Research ,Mammals -- Physiological aspects -- Genetic aspects ,Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
DNA methylation is highly dynamic during mammalian embryogenesis. It is broadly accepted that the paternal genome is actively depleted of 5-methylcytosine at fertilization, followed by passive loss that reaches a minimum at the blastocyst stage. However, this model is based on limited data, and so far no base-resolution maps exist to support and refine it. Here we generate genome-scale DNA methylation maps in mouse gametes and from the zygote through post-implantation. We find that the oocyte already exhibits global hypomethylation, particularly at specific families of long interspersed element 1 and long terminal repeat retroelements, which are disparately methylated between gametes and have lower methylation values in the zygote than in sperm. Surprisingly, the oocyte contributes a unique set of differentially methylated regions (DMRs)--including many CpG island promoters--that are maintained in the early embryo but are lost upon specification and absent from somatic cells. In contrast, sperm-contributed DMRs are largely intergenic and become hypermethylated after the blastocyst stage. Our data provide a genome-scale, base-resolution timeline of DNA methylation in the pre-specified embryo, when this epigenetic modification is most dynamic, before returning to the canonical somatic pattern., Cytosine methylation in mammals is an epigenetic modification that is largely restricted to CpG dinucleotides and serves multiple critical functions, including stable repression of target promoters, maintaining genomic integrity, establishing [...]
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- 2012
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9. Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types
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Ernst, Jason, Kheradpour, Pouya, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Shoresh, Noam, Ward, Lucas D., Epstein, Charles B., Zhang, Xiaolan, Wang, Li, Issner, Robbyn, Coyne, Michael, Ku, Manching, Durham, Timothy, Kellis, Manolis, and Bernstein, Bradley E.
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Chromatin -- Models -- Mechanical properties ,Chromosome mapping -- Models ,Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Chromatin profiling has emerged as a powerful means of genome annotation and detection of regulatory activity. The approach is especially well suited to the characterization of non-coding portions of the genome, which critically contribute to cellular phenotypes yet remain largely uncharted. Here we map nine chromatin marks across nine cell types to systematically characterize regulatory elements, their cell-type specificities and their functional interactions. Focusing on cell-type-specific patterns of promoters and enhancers, we define multicell activity profiles for chromatin state, gene expression, regulatory motif enrichment and regulator expression. We use correlations between these profiles to link enhancers to putative target genes, and predict the cell-type-specific activators and repressors that modulate them. The resulting annotations and regulatory predictions have implications for the interpretation of genome-wide association studies. Top-scoring disease single nucleotide polymorphisms are frequently positioned within enhancer elements specifically active in relevant cell types, and in some cases affect a motif instance for a predicted regulator, thus suggesting a mechanism for the association. Our study presents a general framework for deciphering cis-regulatory connections and their roles in disease., A major challenge in biology is understanding how a single genome can give rise to an organism comprising hundreds of distinct cell types. Much emphasis has been placed on the [...]
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- 2011
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10. Comparative Epigenomic Analysis of Murine and Human Adipogenesis
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Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Xu, Zhao, Zhang, Xiaolan, Wang, Li, Gimble, Jeffrey M., Lander, Eric S., and Rosen, Evan D.
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Stem cells -- Comparative analysis ,Genomics -- Comparative analysis ,Chromatin -- Comparative analysis ,Gene expression -- Comparative analysis ,Biological apparatus and supplies -- Comparative analysis ,Biological sciences - Abstract
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.006 Byline: Tarjei S. Mikkelsen (1), Zhao Xu (1)(2), Xiaolan Zhang (1), Li Wang (1), Jeffrey M. Gimble (3), Eric S. Lander (1), Evan D. Rosen (1)(2) Abstract: We report the generation and comparative analysis of genome-wide chromatin state maps, PPAR[gamma] and CTCF localization maps, and gene expression profiles from murine and human models of adipogenesis. The data provide high-resolution views of chromatin remodeling during cellular differentiation and allow identification of thousands of putative preadipocyte- and adipocyte-specific cis-regulatory elements based on dynamic chromatin signatures. We find that the specific locations of most such elements differ between the two models, including at orthologous loci with similar expression patterns. Based on sequence analysis and reporter assays, we show that these differences are determined, in part, by evolutionary turnover of transcription factor motifs in the genome sequences and that this turnover may be facilitated by the presence of multiple distal regulatory elements at adipogenesis-dependent loci. We also utilize the close relationship between open chromatin marks and transcription factor motifs to identify and validate PLZF and SRF as regulators of adipogenesis. Author Affiliation: (1) Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA (2) Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA (3) Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana University System, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA Article History: Received 17 April 2010; Revised 13 July 2010; Accepted 27 August 2010 Article Note: (miscellaneous) Published: September 30, 2010
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- 2010
11. Comprehensive mutational scanning of a kinase in vivo reveals substrate-dependent fitness landscapes
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Melnikov, Alexandre, Rogov, Peter, Wang, Li, Gnirke, Andreas, and Mikkelsen, Tarjei S.
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- 2014
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12. Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals
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Guttman, Mitchell, Amit, Ido, Garber, Manuel, French, Courtney, Lin, Michael F., Feldser, David, Huarte, Maite, Zuk, Or, Carey, Bryce W., Cassady, John P., Cabili, Moran N., Jaenisch, Rudolf, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Jacks, Tyler, Hacohen, Nir, Bernstein, Bradley E., Kellis, Manolis, Regev, Aviv, Rinn, John L., and Lander, Eric S.
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Chromatin -- Genetic aspects -- Physiological aspects ,Genetic code -- Identification and classification -- Physiological aspects -- Genetic aspects ,RNA -- Identification and classification -- Physiological aspects -- Genetic aspects ,Mammals -- Genetic aspects -- Physiological aspects ,Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation ,Identification and classification ,Physiological aspects ,Genetic aspects - Abstract
There is growing recognition that mammalian cells produce many thousands of large intergenic transcripts (1-4). However, the functional significance of these transcripts has been particularly controversial. Although there are some well-characterized examples, most (.95%) show little evidence of evolutionary conservation and have been suggested to represent transcriptional noise (5,6). Here we report a new approach to identifying large non-coding RNAs using chromatin-state maps to discover discrete transcriptional units intervening known protein-coding loci. Our approach identified ~1,600 large multi-exonic RNAs across four mouse cell types. In sharp contrast to previous collections, these large intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) show strong purifying selection in their genomic loci, exonic sequences and promoter regions, with greater than 95% showing clear evolutionary conservation. We also developed a functional genomics approach that assigns putative functions to each lincRNA, demonstrating a diverse range of roles for lincRNAs in processes fromembryonic stem cell pluripotency to cell proliferation. We obtained independent functional validation for the predictions for over 100 lincRNAs, using cell-based assays. In particular, we demonstrate that specific lincRNAs are transcriptionally regulated by key transcription factors in these processes such as p53, NFκB, Sox2, Oct4 (also known as Pou5f1) and Nanog. Together, these results define a unique collection of functional lincRNAs that are highly conserved and implicated in diverse biological processes., There are at present only about a dozen well-characterized lincRNAs in mammals, with transcript sizes ranging from 2.3 to 17.2 kilobases (kb) (7,8). These lincRNAs have distinctive biological roles through [...]
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- 2009
13. Genome-scale DNA methylation maps of pluripotent and differentiated cells
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Meissner, Alexander, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Gu, Hongcang, Wernig, Marius, Hanna, Jacob, Sivachenko, Andrey, Zhang, Xiaolan, Bernstein, Bradley E., Nusbaum, Chad, Jaffe, David B., Gnirke, Andreas, Jaenisch, Rudolf, and Lander, Eric S.
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- 2008
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14. Dissecting direct reprogramming through integrative genomic analysis
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Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Hanna, Jacob, Zhang, Xiaolan, Ku, Manching, Wernig, Marius, Schorderet, Patrick, Bernstein, Bradley E., Jaenisch, Rudolf, Lander, Eric S., and Meissner, Alexander
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- 2008
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15. Solving nonlinear polynomial systems in the barycentric Bernstein basis
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Reuter, Martin, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Sherbrooke, Evan C., Maekawa, Takashi, and Patrikalakis, Nicholas M.
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- 2008
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16. Non-equivalence of Wnt and R-spondin ligands during Lgr5+ intestinal stem-cell self-renewal
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Yan, Kelley S., Janda, Claudia Y., Chang, Junlei, Zheng, Grace X. Y., Larkin, Kathryn A., Luca, Vincent C., Chia, Luis A., Mah, Amanda T., Han, Arnold, Terry, Jessica M., Ootani, Akifumi, Roelf, Kelly, Lee, Mark, Yuan, Jenny, Li, Xiao, Bolen, Christopher R., Wilhelmy, Julie, Davies, Paige S., Ueno, Hiroo, von Furstenberg, Richard J., Belgrader, Phillip, Ziraldo, Solongo B., Ordonez, Heather, Henning, Susan J., Wong, Melissa H., Snyder, Michael P., Weissman, Irving L., Hsueh, Aaron J., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Garcia, K. Christopher, and Kuo, Calvin J.
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Ligands (Biochemistry) -- Health aspects ,Stem cells -- Health aspects ,Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Author(s): Kelley S. Yan [1, 2]; Claudia Y. Janda [3]; Junlei Chang [1]; Grace X. Y. Zheng [4]; Kathryn A. Larkin [1]; Vincent C. Luca [3]; Luis A. Chia [1]; [...]
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- 2017
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17. Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences
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Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Wakefield, Matthew J., Aken, Bronwen, Amemiya, Chris T., Chang, Jean L., Duke, Shannon, Garber, Manuel, Gentles, Andrew J., Goodstadt, Leo, Heger, Andreas, Jurka, Jerzy, Kamal, Michael, Mauceli, Evan, Searle, Stephen M. J., Sharpe, Ted, Baker, Michelle L., Batzer, Mark A., Benos, Panayiotis V., Belov, Katherine, Clamp, Michele, Cook, April, Cuff, James, Das, Radhika, Davidow, Lance, Deakin, Janine E., Fazzari, Melissa J., Glass, Jacob L., Grabherr, Manfred, Greally, John M., Gu, Wanjun, Hore, Timothy A., Huttley, Gavin A., Kleber, Michael, Jirtle, Randy L., Koina, Edda, Lee, Jeannie T., Mahony, Shaun, Marra, Marco A., Miller, Robert D., Nicholls, Robert D., Oda, Mayumi, Papenfuss, Anthony T., Parra, Zuly E., Pollock, David D., Ray, David A., Schein, Jacqueline E., Speed, Terence P., Thompson, Katherine, VandeBerg, John L., Wade, Claire M., Walker, Jerilyn A., Waters, Paul D., Webber, Caleb, Weidman, Jennifer R., Xie, Xiaohui, Zody, Michael C., Baldwin, Jennifer, Abdouelleil, Amr, Abdulkadir, Jamal, Abebe, Adal, Abera, Brikti, Abreu, Justin, Acer, St Christophe, Aftuck, Lynne, Alexander, Allen, An, Peter, Anderson, Erica, Anderson, Scott, Arachi, Harindra, Azer, Marc, Bachantsang, Pasang, Barry, Andrew, Bayul, Tashi, Berlin, Aaron, Bessette, Daniel, Bloom, Toby, Blye, Jason, Boguslavskiy, Leonid, Bonnet, Claude, Boukhgalter, Boris, Bourzgui, Imane, Brown, Adam, Cahill, Patrick, Channer, Sheridon, Cheshatsang, Yama, Chuda, Lisa, Citroen, Mieke, Collymore, Alville, Cooke, Patrick, Costello, Maura, D'Aco, Katie, Daza, Riza, De Haan, Georgius, DeGray, Stuart, DeMaso, Christina, Dhargay, Norbu, Dooley, Kimberly, Dooley, Erin, Doricent, Missole, Dorje, Passang, Dorjee, Kunsang, Dupes, Alan, Elong, Richard, Falk, Jill, Farina, Abderrahim, Faro, Susan, Ferguson, Diallo, Fisher, Sheila, Foley, Chelsea D., Franke, Alicia, Friedrich, Dennis, Gadbois, Loryn, Gearin, Gary, Gearin, Christina R., Giannoukos, Georgia, Goode, Tina, Graham, Joseph, Grandbois, Edward, Grewal, Sharleen, Gyaltsen, Kunsang, Hafez, Nabil, Hagos, Birhane, Hall, Jennifer, Henson, Charlotte, Hollinger, Andrew, Honan, Tracey, Huard, Monika D., Hughes, Leanne, Hurhula, Brian, Husby, M. Erii, Kamat, Asha, Kanga, Ben, Kashin, Seva, Khazanovich, Dmitry, Kisner, Peter, Lance, Krista, Lara, Marcia, Lee, William, Lennon, Niall, Letendre, Frances, LeVine, Rosie, Lipovsky, Alex, Liu, Xiaohong, Liu, Jinlei, Liu, Shangtao, Lokyitsang, Tashi, Lokyitsang, Yeshi, Lubonja, Rakela, Lui, Annie, MacDonald, Pen, Magnisalis, Vasilia, Maru, Kebede, Matthews, Charles, McCusker, William, McDonough, Susan, Mehta, Teena, Meldrim, James, Meneus, Louis, Mihai, Oana, Mihalev, Atanas, Mihova, Tanya, Mittelman, Rachel, Mlenga, Valentine, Montmayeur, Anna, Mulrain, Leonidas, Navidi, Adam, Naylor, Jerome, Negash, Tamrat, Nguyen, Thu, Nguyen, Nga, Nicol, Robert, Norbu, Choe, Norbu, Nyima, Novod, Nathaniel, O'Neill, Barry, Osman, Sahal, Markiewicz, Eva, Oyono, Otero L., Patti, Christopher, Phunkhang, Pema, Pierre, Fritz, Priest, Margaret, Raghuraman, Sujaa, Rege, Filip, Reyes, Rebecca, Rise, Cecil, Rogov, Peter, Ross, Keenan, Ryan, Elizabeth, Settipalli, Sampath, Shea, Terry, Sherpa, Ngawang, Shi, Lu, Shih, Diana, Sparrow, Todd, Spaulding, Jessica, Stalker, John, Stange-Thomann, Nicole, Stavropoulos, Sharon, Stone, Catherine, Strader, Christopher, Tesfaye, Senait, Thomson, Talene, Thoulutsang, Yama, Thoulutsang, Dawa, Topham, Kerri, Topping, Ira, Tsamla, Tsamla, Vassiliev, Helen, Vo, Andy, Wangchuk, Tsering, Wangdi, Tsering, Weiand, Michael, Wilkinson, Jane, Wilson, Adam, Yadav, Shailendra, Young, Geneva, Yu, Qing, Zembek, Lisa, Zhong, Danni, Zimmer, Andrew, Zwirko, Zac, Jaffe, David B., Alvarez, Pablo, Brockman, Will, Butler, Jonathan, Chin, CheeWhye, Gnerre, Sante, MacCallum, Iain, Graves, Jennifer A. Marshall, Ponting, Chris P., Breen, Matthew, Samollow, Paul B., Lander, Eric S., and Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin
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Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Author(s): Tarjei S. Mikkelsen (corresponding author) [1, 2]; Matthew J. Wakefield [3]; Bronwen Aken [4]; Chris T. Amemiya [5]; Jean L. Chang [1]; Shannon Duke [6]; Manuel Garber [1]; Andrew [...]
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18. Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in conserved regions of the human genome, including thousands of CTCF insulator sites
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Xie, Xiaohui, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Gnirke, Andreas, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Kellis, Manolis, and Lander, Eric S.
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Human genome -- Research ,Noncoding DNA -- Research ,Science and technology - Abstract
Conserved noncoding elements (CNEs) constitute the majority of sequences under purifying selection in the human genome, yet their function remains largely unknown. Experimental evidence suggests that many of these elements play regulatory roles, but little is known about regulatory motifs contained within them. Here we describe a systematic approach to discover and characterize regulatory motifs within mammalian CNEs by searching for long motifs (12-22 nt) with significant enrichment in CNEs and studying their biochemical and genomic properties. Our analysis identifies 233 long motifs (LMs), matching a total of [approximately equal to]60,000 conserved instances across the human genome. These motifs include 16 previously known regulatory elements, such as the histone 3'-UTR motif and the neuron-restrictive silencer element, as well as striking examples of novel functional elements. The most highly enriched motif (LM1) corresponds to the X-box motif known from yeast and nematode. We show that it is bound by the RFX1 protein and identify thousands of conserved motif instances, suggesting a broad role for the RFX family in gene regulation. A second group of motifs ([LM2.sup.*]) does not match any previously known motif. We demonstrate by biochemical and computational methods that it defines a binding site for the CTCF protein, which is involved in insulator function to limit the spread of gene activation. We identify nearly 15,000 conserved sites that likely serve as insulators, and we show that nearby genes separated by predicted CTCF sites show markedly reduced correlation in gene expression, These sites may thus partition the human genome into domains of expression. comparative genomics | conserved noncoding element
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19. DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 8
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Nusbaum, Chad, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Zody, Michael C., Asakawa, Shuichi, Taudien, Stefan, Garber, Manuel, Kodira, Chinnappa D., Schueler, Mary G., Shimizu, Atsushi, Whittaker, Charles A., Chang, Jean L., Cuomo, Christina A., Dewar, Ken, FitzGerald, Michael G., Yang, Xiaoping, Allen, Nicole R., Anderson, Scott, Asakawa, Teruyo, Blechschmidt, Karin, Bloom, Toby, Borowsky, Mark L., Butler, Jonathan, Cook, April, Corum, Benjamin, DeArellano, Kurt, DeCaprio, David, Dooley, Kathleen T., Dorris, III, Lester, Engels, Reinhard, Glockner, Gernot, Hafez, Nabil, Hagopian, Daniel S., Hall, Jennifer L., Ishikawa, Sabine K., Jaffe, David B., Kamat, Asha, Kudoh, Jun, Lehmann, Rudiger, Lokitsang, Tashi, Macdonald, Pendexter, Major, John E., Matthews, Charles D., Mauceli, Evan, Menzel, Uwe, Mihalev, Atanas H., Minoshima, Shinsei, Murayama, Yuji, Naylor, Jerome W., Nicol, Robert, Nguyen, Cindy, O'Leary, Sinead B., O'Neill, Keith, Parker, Stephen C. J., Polley, Andreas, Raymond, Christina K., Reichwald, Kathrin, Rodriguez, Joseph, Sasaki, Takashi, Schilhabel, Markus, Siddiqui, Roman, Smith, Cherylyn L., Sneddon, Tam P., Talamas, Jessica A., Tenzin, Pema, Topham, Kerri, Venkataraman, Vijay, Wen, Gaiping, Yamazaki, Satoru, Young, Sarah K., Zeng, Qiandong, Zimmer, Andrew R., Rosenthal, Andre, Birren, Bruce W., Platzer, Matthias, Shimizu, Nobuyoshi, and Lander, Eric S.
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Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Author(s): Chad Nusbaum (corresponding author) [1]; Tarjei S. Mikkelsen [1]; Michael C. Zody [1]; Shuichi Asakawa [2]; Stefan Taudien [3]; Manuel Garber [1]; Chinnappa D. Kodira [1]; Mary G. Schueler [...]
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20. Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog
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Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Wade, Claire M., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Karlsson, Elinor K., Jaffe, David B., Kamal, Michael, Clamp, Michele, Chang, Jean L., Kulbokas, III, Edward J., Zody, Michael C., Mauceli, Evan, Xie, Xiaohui, Breen, Matthew, Wayne, Robert K., Ostrander, Elaine A., Ponting, Chris P., Galibert, Francis, Smith, Douglas R., deJong, Pieter J., Kirkness, Ewen, Alvarez, Pablo, Biagi, Tara, Brockman, William, Butler, Jonathan, Chin, Chee-Wye, Cook, April, Cuff, James, Daly, Mark J., DeCaprio, David, Gnerre, Sante, Grabherr, Manfred, Kellis, Manolis, Kleber, Michael, Bardeleben, Carolyne, Goodstadt, Leo, Heger, Andreas, Hitte, Christophe, Kim, Lisa, Koepfli, Klaus-Peter, Parker, Heidi G., Pollinger, John P., Searle, Stephen M. J., Sutter, Nathan B., Thomas, Rachael, Webber, Caleb, Baldwin, Jennifer, Abebe, Adal, Abouelleil, Amr, Aftuck, Lynne, Ait-zahra, Mostafa, Aldredge, Tyler, Allen, Nicole, An, Peter, Anderson, Scott, Antoine, Claudel, Arachchi, Harindra, Aslam, Ali, Ayotte, Laura, Bachantsang, Pasang, Barry, Andrew, Bayul, Tashi, Benamara, Mostafa, Berlin, Aaron, Bessette, Daniel, Blitshteyn, Berta, Bloom, Toby, Blye, Jason, Boguslavskiy, Leonid, Bonnet, Claude, Boukhgalter, Boris, Brown, Adam, Cahill, Patrick, Calixte, Nadia, Camarata, Jody, Cheshatsang, Yama, Chu, Jeffrey, Citroen, Mieke, Collymore, Alville, Cooke, Patrick, Dawoe, Tenzin, Daza, Riza, Decktor, Karin, DeGray, Stuart, Dhargay, Norbu, Dooley, Kimberly, Dooley, Kathleen, Dorje, Passang, Dorjee, Kunsang, Dorris, Lester, Duffey, Noah, Dupes, Alan, Egbiremolen, Osebhajajeme, Elong, Richard, Falk, Jill, Farina, Abderrahim, Faro, Susan, Ferguson, Diallo, Ferreira, Patricia, Fisher, Sheila, FitzGerald, Mike, Foley, Karen, Foley, Chelsea, Franke, Alicia, Friedrich, Dennis, Gage, Diane, Garber, Manuel, Gearin, Gary, Giannoukos, Georgia, Goode, Tina, Goyette, Audra, Graham, Joseph, Grandbois, Edward, Gyaltsen, Kunsang, Hafez, Nabil, Hagopian, Daniel, Hagos, Birhane, Hall, Jennifer, Healy, Claire, Hegarty, Ryan, Honan, Tracey, Horn, Andrea, Houde, Nathan, Hughes, Leanne, Hunnicutt, Leigh, Husby, M., Jester, Benjamin, Jones, Charlien, Kamat, Asha, Kanga, Ben, Kells, Cristyn, Khazanovich, Dmitry, Kieu, Alix Chinh, Kisner, Peter, Kumar, Mayank, Lance, Krista, Landers, Thomas, Lara, Marcia, Lee, William, Leger, Jean-Pierre, Lennon, Niall, Leuper, Lisa, LeVine, Sarah, Liu, Jinlei, Liu, Xiaohong, Lokyitsang, Yeshi, Lokyitsang, Tashi, Lui, Annie, Macdonald, Jan, Major, John, Marabella, Richard, Maru, Kebede, Matthews, Charles, McDonough, Susan, Mehta, Teena, Meldrim, James, Melnikov, Alexandre, Meneus, Louis, Mihalev, Atanas, Mihova, Tanya, Miller, Karen, Mittelman, Rachel, Mlenga, Valentine, Mulrain, Leonidas, Munson, Glen, Navidi, Adam, Naylor, Jerome, Nguyen, Tuyen, Nguyen, Nga, Nguyen, Cindy, Nguyen, Thu, Nicol, Robert, Norbu, Nyima, Norbu, Choe, Novod, Nathaniel, Nyima, Tenchoe, Olandt, Peter, O'Neill, Barry, O'Neill, Keith, Osman, Sahal, Oyono, Lucien, Patti, Christopher, Perrin, Danielle, Phunkhang, Pema, Pierre, Fritz, Priest, Margaret, Rachupka, Anthony, Raghuraman, Sujaa, Rameau, Rayale, Ray, Verneda, Raymond, Christina, Rege, Filip, Rise, Cecil, Rogers, Julie, Rogov, Peter, Sahalie, Julie, Settipalli, Sampath, Sharpe, Theodore, Shea, Terrance, Sheehan, Mechele, Sherpa, Ngawang, Shi, Jianying, Shih, Diana, Sloan, Jessie, Smith, Cherylyn, Sparrow, Todd, Stalker, John, Stange-Thomann, Nicole, Stavropoulos, Sharon, Stone, Catherine, Stone, Sabrina, Sykes, Sean, Tchuinga, Pierre, Tenzing, Pema, Tesfaye, Senait, Thoulutsang, Dawa, Thoulutsang, Yama, Topham, Kerri, Topping, Ira, Tsamla, Tsamla, Vassiliev, Helen, Venkataraman, Vijay, Vo, Andy, Wangchuk, Tsering, Wangdi, Tsering, Weiand, Michael, Wilkinson, Jane, Wilson, Adam, Yadav, Shailendra, Yang, Shuli, Yang, Xiaoping, Young, Geneva, Yu, Qing, Zainoun, Joanne, Zembek, Lisa, Zimmer, Andrew, and Lander, Eric S.
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Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Author(s): Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (corresponding author) [1]; Claire M Wade [1, 2]; Tarjei S. Mikkelsen [1, 3]; Elinor K. Karlsson [1, 4]; David B. Jaffe [1]; Michael Kamal [1]; Michele Clamp [...]
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21. DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 18
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Nusbaum, Chad, Zody, Michael C., Borowsky, Mark L., Kamal, Michael, Kodira, Chinnappa D., Taylor, Todd D., Whittaker, Charles A., Chang, Jean L., Cuomo, Christina A., Dewar, Ken, FitzGerald, Michael G., Yang, Xiaoping, Abouelleil, Amr, Allen, Nicole R., Anderson, Scott, Bloom, Toby, Bugalter, Boris, Butler, Jonathan, Cook, April, DeCaprio, David, Engels, Reinhard, Garber, Manuel, Gnirke, Andreas, Hafez, Nabil, Hall, Jennifer L., Norman, Catherine Hosage, Itoh, Takehiko, Jaffe, David B., Kuroki, Yoko, Lehoczky, Jessica, Lui, Annie, Macdonald, Pendexter, Mauceli, Evan, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Naylor, Jerome W., Nicol, Robert, Nguyen, Cindy, Noguchi, Hideki, O'Leary, Sinead B., Piqani, Bruno, L Smith, Cherylyn, Talamas, Jessica A., Topham, Kerri, Totoki, Yasushi, Toyoda, Atsushi, Wain, Hester M., Young, Sarah K., Zeng, Qiandong, Zimmer, Andrew R., Fujiyama, Asao, Hattori, Masahira, Birren, Bruce W., Sakaki, Yoshiyuki, and Lander, Eric S.
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Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Author(s): Chad Nusbaum (corresponding author) [1]; Michael C. Zody [1]; Mark L. Borowsky [1]; Michael Kamal [1]; Chinnappa D. Kodira [1]; Todd D. Taylor [2]; Charles A. Whittaker [1, 8]; [...]
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22. Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells
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Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Ku, Manching, Jaffe, David B., Issac, Biju, Lieberman, Erez, Giannoukos, Georgia, Alvarez, Pablo, Brockman, William, Kim, Tae-Kyung, Koche, Richard P., Lee, William, Mendenhall, Eric, O'Donovan, Aisling, Presser, Aviva, Russ, Carsten, Xie, Xiaohui, Meissner, Alexander, Wernig, Marius, Jaenisch, Rudolf, Nusbaum, Chad, Lander, Eric S., and Bernstein, Bradley E.
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23. A Human-Specific Gene in Microglia
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Hayakawa, Toshiyuki, Angata, Takashi, Lewis, Amanda L., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Varki, Nissi M., and Varki, Ajit
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24. Improving genome annotations using phylogenetic profile anomaly detection
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Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Galagan, James E., and Mesirov, Jill P.
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25. Convergent and divergent evolution of genomic imprinting in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica
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Das Radhika, Anderson Nathan, Koran MaryEllen I, Weidman Jennifer R, Mikkelsen Tarjei S, Kamal Michael, Murphy Susan K, Linblad-Toh Kerstin, Greally John M, and Jirtle Randy L
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Genomic imprinting ,Marsupials ,Eutherians ,Biotechnology ,TP248.13-248.65 ,Genetics ,QH426-470 - Abstract
Abstract Background Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon resulting in parent-of-origin specific monoallelic gene expression. It is postulated to have evolved in placental mammals to modulate intrauterine resource allocation to the offspring. In this study, we determined the imprint status of metatherian orthologues of eutherian imprinted genes. Results L3MBTL and HTR2A were shown to be imprinted in Monodelphis domestica (the gray short-tailed opossum). MEST expressed a monoallelic and a biallelic transcript, as in eutherians. In contrast, IMPACT, COPG2, and PLAGL1 were not imprinted in the opossum. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) involved in regulating imprinting in eutherians were not found at any of the new imprinted loci in the opossum. Interestingly, a novel DMR was identified in intron 11 of the imprinted IGF2R gene, but this was not conserved in eutherians. The promoter regions of the imprinted genes in the opossum were enriched for the activating histone modification H3 Lysine 4 dimethylation. Conclusions The phenomenon of genomic imprinting is conserved in Therians, but the marked difference in the number and location of imprinted genes and DMRs between metatherians and eutherians indicates that imprinting is not fully conserved between the two Therian infra-classes. The identification of a novel DMR at a non-conserved location as well as the first demonstration of histone modifications at imprinted loci in the opossum suggest that genomic imprinting may have evolved in a common ancestor of these two Therian infra-classes with subsequent divergence of regulatory mechanisms in the two lineages.
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26. Loss of DNA methyltransferase activity in primed human ES cells triggers increased cell-cell variability and transcriptional repression.
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Tsankov, Alexander M., Wadsworth II, Marc H., Akopian, Veronika, Charlton, Jocelyn, Allon, Samuel J., Arczewska, Aleksandra, Mead, Benjamin E., Drake, Riley S., Smith, Zachary D., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Shalek, Alex K., and Meissner, Alexander
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DNA methyltransferases ,HUMAN embryonic stem cells ,MESODERM ,METHYLTRANSFERASES ,PLURIPOTENT stem cells ,DNA primers ,HUMAN stem cells - Abstract
Maintenance of pluripotency and specification towards a new cell fate are both dependent on precise interactions between extrinsic signals and transcriptional and epigenetic regulators. Directed methylation of cytosines by the de novo methyltransferases DNMT3A and DNMT3B plays an important role in facilitating proper differentiation, whereas DNMT1 is essential for maintaining global methylation levels in all cell types. Here, we generated single-cell mRNA expression data from wild-type, DNMT3A, DNMT3A/3B and DNMT1 knockout human embryonic stem cells and observed a widespread increase in cellular and transcriptional variability, even with limited changes in global methylation levels in the de novo knockouts. Furthermore, we found unexpected transcriptional repression upon either loss of the de novo methyltransferase DNMT3A or the double knockout of DNMT3A/3B that is further propagated upon differentiation to mesoderm and ectoderm. Taken together, our single-cell RNA-sequencing data provide a high-resolution view into the consequences of depleting the three catalytically active DNMTs in human pluripotent stem cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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27. Identification of Functional Variants in the FAM13A Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Locus by Massively Parallel Reporter Assays.
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Castaldi, Peter J, Guo, Feng, Qiao, Dandi, Du, Fei, Naing, Zun Zar Chi, Li, Yan, Pham, Betty, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S, Cho, Michael H, Silverman, Edwin K, and Zhou, Xiaobo
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Rationale: The identification of causal variants responsible for disease associations from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) facilitates functional understanding of the biological mechanisms by which those genetic variants influence disease susceptibility.Objective: We aim to identify causal variants in or near the FAM13A (family with sequence similarity member 13A) GWAS locus associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Methods: We used an integrated approach featuring conditional genetic analysis, massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs), traditional reporter assays, chromatin conformation capture assays, and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based gene editing to characterize COPD-associated regulatory variants in the FAM13A region in human bronchial epithelial cell lines.Measurements and Main Results: Conditional genetic association suggests the presence of two independent COPD association signals in FAM13A. MPRAs identified 45 regulatory variants within FAM13A, among which six variants were prioritized for further investigation. Three COPD-associated variants demonstrated significant allele-specific activity in reporter assays. One of three variants, rs2013701, was tested in the endogenous genomic context by CRISPR-based genome editing that confirmed its allele-specific effects on FAM13A expression and on cell proliferation, providing functional characterization for this COPD-associated variant.Conclusions: The human GWAS association near FAM13A may contain independent association signals. MPRAs identified multiple functional variants in this region, including rs2013701, a putative COPD-causing variant with allele-specific regulatory activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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28. Dynamics of lineage commitment revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of differentiating embryonic stem cells.
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Semrau, Stefan, Goldmann, Johanna E., Soumillon, Magali, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Jaenisch, Rudolf, and van Oudenaarden, Alexander
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EMBRYONIC stem cells ,CELL determination ,GENE expression ,TRETINOIN - Abstract
Gene expression heterogeneity in the pluripotent state of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) has been increasingly well-characterized. In contrast, exit from pluripotency and lineage commitment have not been studied systematically at the single-cell level. Here we measure the gene expression dynamics of retinoic acid driven mESC differentiation from pluripotency to lineage commitment, using an unbiased single-cell transcriptomics approach. We find that the exit from pluripotency marks the start of a lineage transition as well as a transient phase of increased susceptibility to lineage specifying signals. Our study reveals several transcriptional signatures of this phase, including a sharp increase of gene expression variability and sequential expression of two classes of transcriptional regulators. In summary, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the exit from pluripotency and lineage commitment at the single cell level, a potential stepping stone to improved lineage manipulation through timing of differentiation cues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. Registry in a tube: multiplexed pools of retrievable parts for genetic design space exploration.
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Woodruff, Lauren B. A., Gorochowski, Thomas E., Roehner, Nicholas, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Densmore, Douglas, Gordon, D. Benjamin, Nicol, Robert, and Voigt, Christopher A.
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30. Genome-scale high-resolution mapping of activating and repressive nucleotides in regulatory regions.
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Ernst, Jason, Melnikov, Alexandre, Zhang, Xiaolan, Wang, Li, Rogov, Peter, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S, and Kellis, Manolis
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Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) enable nucleotide-resolution dissection of transcriptional regulatory regions, such as enhancers, but only few regions at a time. Here we present a combined experimental and computational approach, Systematic high-resolution activation and repression profiling with reporter tiling using MPRA (Sharpr-MPRA), that allows high-resolution analysis of thousands of regions simultaneously. Sharpr-MPRA combines dense tiling of overlapping MPRA constructs with a probabilistic graphical model to recognize functional regulatory nucleotides, and to distinguish activating and repressive nucleotides, using their inferred contribution to reporter gene expression. We used Sharpr-MPRA to test 4.6 million nucleotides spanning 15,000 putative regulatory regions tiled at 5-nucleotide resolution in two human cell types. Our results recovered known cell-type-specific regulatory motifs and evolutionarily conserved nucleotides, and distinguished known activating and repressive motifs. Our results also showed that endogenous chromatin state and DNA accessibility are both predictive of regulatory function in reporter assays, identified retroviral elements with activating roles, and uncovered 'attenuator' motifs with repressive roles in active chromatin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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31. Phenotypic Characterization of a Comprehensive Set of MAPK1/ERK2 Missense Mutants.
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Brenan, Lisa, Andreev, Aleksandr, Cohen, Ofir, Pantel, Sasha, Kamburov, Atanas, Cacchiarelli, Davide, Persky, Nicole S., Zhu, Cong, Bagul, Mukta, Goetz, Eva M., Burgin, Alex B., Garraway, Levi A., Getz, Gad, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Piccioni, Federica, Root, David E., and Johannessen, Cory M.
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Summary Tumor-specific genomic information has the potential to guide therapeutic strategies and revolutionize patient treatment. Currently, this approach is limited by an abundance of disease-associated mutants whose biological functions and impacts on therapeutic response are uncharacterized. To begin to address this limitation, we functionally characterized nearly all (99.84%) missense mutants of MAPK1 /ERK2, an essential effector of oncogenic RAS and RAF. Using this approach, we discovered rare gain- and loss-of-function ERK2 mutants found in human tumors, revealing that, in the context of this assay, mutational frequency alone cannot identify all functionally impactful mutants. Gain-of-function ERK2 mutants induced variable responses to RAF-, MEK-, and ERK-directed therapies, providing a reference for future treatment decisions. Tumor-associated mutations spatially clustered in two ERK2 effector-recruitment domains yet produced mutants with opposite phenotypes. This approach articulates an allele-characterization framework that can be scaled to meet the goals of genome-guided oncology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Identification of nuclear hormone receptor pathways causing insulin resistance by transcriptional and epigenomic analysis.
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Kang, Sona, Tsai, Linus T., Zhou, Yiming, Evertts, Adam, Xu, Su, Griffin, Michael J., Issner, Robbyn, Whitton, Holly J., Garcia, Benjamin A., Epstein, Charles B., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Rosen, Evan D.
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INSULIN resistance ,OBESITY ,AGING ,PHENOTYPES ,STEROIDS ,VITAMIN D receptors - Abstract
Insulin resistance is a cardinal feature of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and a frequent complication of multiple clinical conditions, including obesity, ageing and steroid use, among others. How such a panoply of insults can result in a common phenotype is incompletely understood. Furthermore, very little is known about the transcriptional and epigenetic basis of this disorder, despite evidence that such pathways are likely to play a fundamental role. Here, we compare cell autonomous models of insulin resistance induced by the cytokine tumour necrosis factor-α or by the steroid dexamethasone to construct detailed transcriptional and epigenomic maps associated with cellular insulin resistance. These data predict that the glucocorticoid receptor and vitamin D receptor are common mediators of insulin resistance, which we validate using gain- and loss-of-function studies. These studies define a common transcriptional and epigenomic signature in cellular insulin resistance enabling the identification of pathogenic mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Altered Chromatin Occupancy of Master Regulators Underlies Evolutionary Divergence in the Transcriptional Landscape of Erythroid Differentiation.
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Ulirsch, Jacob C., Lacy, Jessica N., An, Xiuli, Mohandas, Narla, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Sankaran, Vijay G.
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CHROMATIN ,REGULATOR genes ,GENETIC transcription ,CELL differentiation ,GENE expression - Abstract
Erythropoiesis is one of the best understood examples of cellular differentiation. Morphologically, erythroid differentiation proceeds in a nearly identical fashion between humans and mice, but recent evidence has shown that networks of gene expression governing this process are divergent between species. We undertook a systematic comparative analysis of six histone modifications and four transcriptional master regulators in primary proerythroblasts and erythroid cell lines to better understand the underlying basis of these transcriptional differences. Our analyses suggest that while chromatin structure across orthologous promoters is strongly conserved, subtle differences are associated with transcriptional divergence between species. Many transcription factor (TF) occupancy sites were poorly conserved across species (∼25% for GATA1, TAL1, and NFE2) but were more conserved between proerythroblasts and cell lines derived from the same species. We found that certain cis-regulatory modules co-occupied by GATA1, TAL1, and KLF1 are under strict evolutionary constraint and localize to genes necessary for erythroid cell identity. More generally, we show that conserved TF occupancy sites are indicative of active regulatory regions and strong gene expression that is sustained during maturation. Our results suggest that evolutionary turnover of TF binding sites associates with changes in the underlying chromatin structure, driving transcriptional divergence. We provide examples of how this framework can be applied to understand epigenomic variation in specific regulatory regions, such as the β-globin gene locus. Our findings have important implications for understanding epigenomic changes that mediate variation in cellular differentiation across species, while also providing a valuable resource for studies of hematopoiesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Enhanced methods for unbiased deep sequencing of Lassa and Ebola RNA viruses from clinical and biological samples.
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Matranga, Christian B., Andersen, Kristian G., Winnicki, Sarah, Busby, Michele, Gladden, Adrianne D., Tewhey, Ryan, Stremlau, Matthew, Berlin, Aaron, Gire, Stephen K., England, Eleina, Moses, Lina M., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Odia, Ikponmwonsa, Ehiane, Philomena E., Folarin, Onikepe, Goba, Augustine, Grant, Donald S., Honko, Anna, Hensley, Lisa, and Happi, Christian
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35. Corrigendum: DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 18
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Nusbaum, Chad, Zody, Michael C., Borowsky, Mark L., Kamal, Michael, Kodira, Chinnappa D., Taylor, Todd D., Whittaker, Charles A., Chang, Jean L., Cuomo, Christina A., Dewar, Ken, FitzGerald, Michael G., Yang, Xiaoping, Abouelleil, Amr, Allen, Nicole R., Anderson, Scott, Bloom, Toby, Bugalter, Boris, Butler, Jonathan, Cook, April, DeCaprio, David, Engels, Reinhard, Garber, Manuel, Gnirke, Andreas, Hafez, Nabil, Hall, Jennifer L., Norman, Catherine Hosage, Itoh, Takehiko, Jaffe, David B., Kuroki, Yoko, Lehoczky, Jessica, Lui, Annie, Macdonald, Pendexter, Mauceli, Evan, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Naylor, Jerome W., Nicol, Robert, Nguyen, Cindy, Noguchi, Hideki, O'Leary, Sinead B., O'Neill, Keith, Piqani, Bruno, Smith, Cherylyn L., Talamas, Jessica A., Topham, Kerri, Totoki, Yasushi, Toyoda, Atsushi, Wain, Hester M., Young, Sarah K., Zeng, Qiandong, Zimmer, Andrew R., Fujiyama, Asao, Hattori, Masahira, Birren, Bruce W., Sakaki, Yoshiyuki, and Lander, Eric S.
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Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation - Abstract
Author(s): Chad Nusbaum; Michael C. Zody; Mark L. Borowsky; Michael Kamal; Chinnappa D. Kodira; Todd D. Taylor; Charles A. Whittaker; Jean L. Chang; Christina A. Cuomo; Ken Dewar; Michael G. [...]
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36. The Regulatory Landscape of Osteogenic Differentiation.
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Håkelien, Anne-Mari, Bryne, Jan Christian, Harstad, Kristine G., Lorenz, Susanne, Paulsen, Jonas, Sun, Jinchang, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Myklebost, Ola, and Meza-Zepeda, Leonardo A.
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MESENCHYMAL stem cell differentiation ,OSTEOBLASTS ,BONE growth ,HOMEOSTASIS ,OSTEOPOROSIS ,GENE expression ,HISTONES ,DNA methylation - Abstract
Differentiation of osteoblasts from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is an integral part of bone development and homeostasis, and may when improperly regulated cause disease such as bone cancer or osteoporosis. Using unbiased high-throughput methods we here characterize the landscape of global changes in gene expression, histone modifications, and DNA methylation upon differentiation of human MSCs to the osteogenic lineage. Furthermore, we provide a first genome-wide characterization of DNA binding sites of the bone master regulatory transcription factor Runt-related transcription factor 2 (RUNX2) in human osteoblasts, revealing target genes associated with regulation of proliferation, migration, apoptosis, and with a significant overlap with p53 regulated genes. These findings expand on emerging evidence of a role for RUNX2 in cancer, including bone metastases, and the p53 regulatory network. We further demonstrate that RUNX2 binds to distant regulatory elements, promoters, and with high frequency to gene 3′ ends. Finally, we identify TEAD2 and GTF2I as novel regulators of osteogenesis. S tem C ells 2014;32:2780-2793 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. Perturbation of m6A Writers Reveals Two Distinct Classes of mRNA Methylation at Internal and 5' Sites.
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Schwartz, Schraga, Mumbach, Maxwell R., Jovanovic, Marko, Tim Wang, Maciag, Karolina, Bushkin, G. Guy, Mertins, Philipp, Ter-Ovanesyan, Dmitry, Habib, Naomi, Cacchiarelli, Davide, Sanjana, Neville E., Freinkman, Elizaveta, Pacold, Michael E., Satija, Rahul, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Hacohen, Nir, Feng Zhang, Carr, Steven A., Lander, Eric S., and Regev, Aviv
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N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is acommonmodification of mRNA with potential roles in fine-tuning the RNA life cycle. Here, we identify a dense network of proteins interacting with METTL3, a component of the methyltransferase complex, and show that three of them (WTAP, METTL14, and KIAA1429) are required for methylation. Monitoring m6A levels upon WTAP depletion allowed the definition of accurate and near single-nucleotide resolution methylation maps and their classification into WTAP-dependent and -independent sites. WTAP-dependent sites are located at internal positions in transcripts, topologically static across a variety of systems we surveyed, and inversely correlated with mRNA stability, consistent with a role in establishing "basal" degradation rates. WTAP-independent sites form at the first transcribed base as part of the cap structure and are present at thousands of sites, forming a previously unappreciated layer of transcriptome complexity. Our data shed light on the proteomic and transcriptional underpinnings of this RNA modification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. Brief Report: Importance of SOX8 for In Vitro Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells.
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Herlofsen, Sarah R., Høiby, Torill, Cacchiarelli, Davide, Zhang, Xiaolan, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Brinchmann, Jan E.
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TRANSCRIPTION factors ,CARTILAGE cells ,CELL differentiation ,MESENCHYMAL stem cells ,CHONDROGENESIS ,HOMOLOGY (Biology) ,MESSENGER RNA ,GENE expression - Abstract
The transcription factor SOX9 is believed to be the master regulator of chondrogenesis. SOX8 is another SOX group E transcription factor with a high degree of homology to SOX9. Here, we demonstrate that SOX8 mRNA levels decrease during in vitro dedifferentiation of human articular chondrocytes and increase during chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stromal cells. Knockdown of SOX9 reduced the expression of SOX8, COL2A1, and a range of other chondrogenic molecules. SOX8 knockdown reduced the expression of a large number of overlapping chondrogenic molecules, but not SOX9. Neither siSOX9 nor siSOX8 altered expression of the hypertrophic marker gene COL10A1. siSOX9, but not siSOX8 led to upregulation of hypertrophy associated genes MMP13 and ALPL. Transfection of synthetic SOX5, 6, and 9 mRNA trio upregulated SOX8, COL2A1, and ACAN, but not COL10A1 mRNA. Replacement of synthetic SOX9 by SOX8 in the SOX trio showed similar but lower chondrogenic effect. We conclude that SOX8 expression is regulated by SOX9, and that both together with SOX5 and SOX6 are required as a SOX quartet for transcription of COL2A1 and a large number of other chondrogenic molecules. Neither SOX8 nor SOX9 affect COL10A1 expression, but SOX9 inhibits chondrocyte hypertrophy through inhibition of MMP13 and ALPL expression. S tem C ells 2014;32:1629-1635 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. Analysis of the Effects of Five Factors Relevant to In Vitro Chondrogenesis of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Using Factorial Design and High Throughput mRNA-Profiling.
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Jakobsen, Rune B., Østrup, Esben, Zhang, Xiaolan, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Brinchmann, Jan E.
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IN vitro studies ,CHONDROGENESIS ,MESENCHYMAL stem cells ,FACTORIAL experiment designs ,CELL differentiation ,MESSENGER RNA ,TISSUE engineering - Abstract
The in vitro process of chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells for tissue engineering has been shown to require three-dimensional culture along with the addition of differentiation factors to the culture medium. In general, this leads to a phenotype lacking some of the cardinal features of native articular chondrocytes and their extracellular matrix. The factors used vary, but regularly include members of the transforming growth factor β superfamily and dexamethasone, sometimes in conjunction with fibroblast growth factor 2 and insulin-like growth factor 1, however the use of soluble factors to induce chondrogenesis has largely been studied on a single factor basis. In the present study we combined a factorial quality-by-design experiment with high-throughput mRNA profiling of a customized chondrogenesis related gene set as a tool to study in vitro chondrogenesis of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells in alginate. 48 different conditions of transforming growth factor β 1, 2 and 3, bone morphogenetic protein 2, 4 and 6, dexamethasone, insulin-like growth factor 1, fibroblast growth factor 2 and cell seeding density were included in the experiment. The analysis revealed that the best of the tested differentiation cocktails included transforming growth factor β 1 and dexamethasone. Dexamethasone acted in synergy with transforming growth factor β 1 by increasing many chondrogenic markers while directly downregulating expression of the pro-osteogenic gene osteocalcin. However, all factors beneficial to the expression of desirable hyaline cartilage markers also induced undesirable molecules, indicating that perfect chondrogenic differentiation is not achievable with the current differentiation protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. The dynamics and regulators of cell fate decisions are revealed by pseudotemporal ordering of single cells.
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Trapnell, Cole, Cacchiarelli, Davide, Grimsby, Jonna, Pokharel, Prapti, Li, Shuqiang, Morse, Michael, Lennon, Niall J, Livak, Kenneth J, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S, and Rinn, John L
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CELL determination ,GENETIC transcription ,GENETIC algorithms ,GENETIC regulation ,NUCLEOTIDE sequence - Abstract
Defining the transcriptional dynamics of a temporal process such as cell differentiation is challenging owing to the high variability in gene expression between individual cells. Time-series gene expression analyses of bulk cells have difficulty distinguishing early and late phases of a transcriptional cascade or identifying rare subpopulations of cells, and single-cell proteomic methods rely on a priori knowledge of key distinguishing markers. Here we describe Monocle, an unsupervised algorithm that increases the temporal resolution of transcriptome dynamics using single-cell RNA-Seq data collected at multiple time points. Applied to the differentiation of primary human myoblasts, Monocle revealed switch-like changes in expression of key regulatory factors, sequential waves of gene regulation, and expression of regulators that were not known to act in differentiation. We validated some of these predicted regulators in a loss-of function screen. Monocle can in principle be used to recover single-cell gene expression kinetics from a wide array of cellular processes, including differentiation, proliferation and oncogenic transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. ZBED6 Modulates the Transcription of Myogenic Genes in Mouse Myoblast Cells.
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Jiang, Lin, Wallerman, Ola, Younis, Shady, Rubin, Carl-Johan, Gilbert, Elizabeth R., Sundström, Elisabeth, Ghazal, Awaisa, Zhang, Xiaolan, Wang, Li, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Andersson, Göran, and Andersson, Leif
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GENETIC transcription ,MYOBLASTS ,LABORATORY mice ,TRANSPOSONS ,GENETIC repressors ,GENE expression ,GENE silencing - Abstract
ZBED6 is a recently discovered transcription factor, unique to placental mammals, that has evolved from a domesticated DNA transposon. It acts as a repressor at the IGF2 locus. Here we show that ZBED6 acts as a transcriptional modulator in mouse myoblast cells, where more than 700 genes were differentially expressed after Zbed6-silencing. The most significantly enriched GO term was muscle protein and contractile fiber, which was consistent with increased myotube formation. Twenty small nucleolar RNAs all showed increased expression after Zbed6-silencing. The co-localization of histone marks and ZBED6 binding sites and the effect of Zbed6-silencing on distribution of histone marks was evaluated by ChIP-seq analysis. There was a strong association between ZBED6 binding sites and the H3K4me3, H3K4me2 and H3K27ac modifications, which are usually found at active promoters, but no association with the repressive mark H3K27me3. Zbed6-silencing led to increased enrichment of active marks at myogenic genes, in agreement with the RNA-seq findings. We propose that ZBED6 preferentially binds to active promoters and modulates transcriptional activity without recruiting repressive histone modifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. microRNA-140 Targets RALA and Regulates Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Translational Enhancement of SOX9 and ACAN.
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Karlsen, Tommy A., Jakobsen, Rune B., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Brinchmann, Jan E.
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43. Cellular Source and Mechanisms of High Transcriptome Complexity in the Mammalian Testis.
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Soumillon, Magali, Necsulea, Anamaria, Weier, Manuela, Brawand, David, Zhang, Xiaolan, Gu, Hongcang, Barthès, Pauline, Kokkinaki, Maria, Nef, Serge, Gnirke, Andreas, Dym, Martin, de Massy, Bernard, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Kaessmann, Henrik
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Summary: Understanding the extent of genomic transcription and its functional relevance is a central goal in genomics research. However, detailed genome-wide investigations of transcriptome complexity in major mammalian organs have been scarce. Here, using extensive RNA-seq data, we show that transcription of the genome is substantially more widespread in the testis than in other organs across representative mammals. Furthermore, we reveal that meiotic spermatocytes and especially postmeiotic round spermatids have remarkably diverse transcriptomes, which explains the high transcriptome complexity of the testis as a whole. The widespread transcriptional activity in spermatocytes and spermatids encompasses protein-coding and long noncoding RNA genes but also poorly conserves intergenic sequences, suggesting that it may not be of immediate functional relevance. Rather, our analyses of genome-wide epigenetic data suggest that this prevalent transcription, which most likely promoted the birth of new genes during evolution, is facilitated by an overall permissive chromatin in these germ cells that results from extensive chromatin remodeling. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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44. Genome-wide map of quantified epigenetic changes during in vitro chondrogenic differentiation of primary human mesenchymal stem cells.
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Herlofsen, Sarah R., Bryne, Jan Christian, Høiby, Torill, Li Wang, Issner, Robbyn, Xiaolan Zhang, Coyne, Michael J., Boyle, Patrick, Hongcang Gu, Meza-Zepeda, Leonardo A., Collas, Philippe, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Brinchmann, Jan E.
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MESENCHYMAL stem cells ,GENES ,GENE expression ,MESSENGER RNA ,CARTILAGE ,IMMUNE system - Abstract
Background: For safe clinical application of engineered cartilage made from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), molecular mechanisms for chondrogenic differentiation must be known in detail. Changes in gene expression and extracellular matrix synthesis have been extensively studied, but the epigenomic modifications underlying these changes have not been described. To this end we performed whole-genome chromatin immunoprecipitation and deep sequencing to quantify six histone modifications, reduced representation bisulphite sequencing to quantify DNA methylation and mRNA microarrays to quantify gene expression before and after 7 days of chondrogenic differentiation of MSCs in an alginate scaffold. To add to the clinical relevance of our observations, the study is based on primary bone marrow-derived MSCs from four donors, allowing us to investigate inter-individual variations. Results: We see two levels of relationship between epigenetic marking and gene expression. First, a large number of genes ontogenetically linked to MSC properties and the musculoskeletal system are epigenetically prepatterned by moderate changes in H3K4me3 and H3K9ac near transcription start sites. Most of these genes remain transcriptionally unaltered. Second, transcriptionally upregulated genes, more closely associated with chondrogenesis, are marked by H3K36me3 in gene bodies, highly increased H3K4me3 and H3K9ac on promoters and 5' end of genes, and increased H3K27ac and H3K4me1 marking in at least one enhancer region per upregulated gene. Within the 7-day time frame, changes in promoter DNA methylation do not correlate significantly with changes in gene expression. Inter-donor variability analysis shows high level of similarity between the donors for this data set. Conclusions: Histone modifications, rather than DNA methylation, provide the primary epigenetic control of early differentiation of MSCs towards the chondrogenic lineage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Systematic dissection and optimization of inducible enhancers in human cells using a massively parallel reporter assay.
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Melnikov, Alexandre, Murugan, Anand, Zhang, Xiaolan, Tesileanu, Tiberiu, Wang, Li, Rogov, Peter, Feizi, Soheil, Gnirke, Andreas, Callan, Curtis G, Kinney, Justin B, Kellis, Manolis, Lander, Eric S, and Mikkelsen, Tarjei S
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GENETIC code ,GENETIC translation ,GENETIC engineering ,DNA ,PLASMIDS - Abstract
Learning to read and write the transcriptional regulatory code is of central importance to progress in genetic analysis and engineering. Here we describe a massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) that facilitates the systematic dissection of transcriptional regulatory elements. In MPRA, microarray-synthesized DNA regulatory elements and unique sequence tags are cloned into plasmids to generate a library of reporter constructs. These constructs are transfected into cells and tag expression is assayed by high-throughput sequencing. We apply MPRA to compare >27,000 variants of two inducible enhancers in human cells: a synthetic cAMP-regulated enhancer and the virus-inducible interferon-? enhancer. We first show that the resulting data define accurate maps of functional transcription factor binding sites in both enhancers at single-nucleotide resolution. We then use the data to train quantitative sequence-activity models (QSAMs) of the two enhancers. We show that QSAMs from two cellular states can be combined to design enhancer variants that optimize potentially conflicting objectives, such as maximizing induced activity while minimizing basal activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium.
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Bernstein, Bradley E., Stamatoyannopoulos, John A., Costello, Joseph F., Ren, Bing, Milosavljevic, Aleksandar, Meissner, Alexander, Kellis, Manolis, Marra, Marco A., Beaudet, Arthur L., Ecker, Joseph R., Farnham, Peggy J., Hirst, Martin, Lander, Eric S., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., and Thomson, James A.
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GENE mapping ,GENOMES ,STEM cells - Abstract
This article discusses the aims and scope of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium. The consortium is said to provide a publicly accessible resource of epigenomic maps in stem cells and primary ex vivo tissues. It is reported that the consortium will investigate a diverse collection of cell and tissue models and will provide epigenomic data to the scientific community.
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47. Genome-scale DNA methylation mapping of clinical samples at single-nucleotide resolution.
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Hongcang Gu, Bock, Christoph, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., J.äger, Natalie, Smith, Zachary D., Tomazou, Eleni, Gnirke, Andreas, Lander, Eric S., and Meissner, Alexander
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DNA ,NUCLEIC acids ,METHYLATION ,GENOMES ,MOLECULAR diagnosis ,PARAFFIN wax - Abstract
Bisulfite sequencing measures absolute levels of DNA methylation at single-nucleotide resolution, providing a robust platform for molecular diagnostics. We optimized bisulfite sequencing for genome-scale analysis of clinical samples: here we outline how restriction digestion targets bisulfite sequencing to hotspots of epigenetic regulation and describe a statistical method for assessing significance of altered DNA methylation patterns. Thirty nanograms of DNA was sufficient for genome-scale analysis and our protocol worked well on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. ZBED6, a Novel Transcription Factor Derived from a Domesticated DNA Transposon Regulates IGF2 Expression and Muscle Growth.
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Markljung, Ellen, Lin Jiang, Jaffe, Jacob D., Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Wallerman, Ola, Larhammar, Martin, Xiaolan Zhang, Li Wang, Saenz-Vash, Veronica, Gnirke, Andreas, Lindroth, Anders M., Barrés, Romain, Jie Yan, Strömberg, Sara, De, Sachinandan, Pontén, Fredrik, Lander, Eric S., Carr, Steven A., Zierath, Juleen R., and Kullander, Klas
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TRANSCRIPTION factors ,NUCLEOTIDE analysis ,GENE expression ,CELL proliferation ,INTRONS ,TRANSPOSONS ,INSULIN-like growth factor-binding proteins ,GENETIC transformation - Abstract
A single nucleotide substitution in intron 3 of IGF2 in pigs abrogates a binding site for a repressor and leads to a 3-fold upregulation of IGF2 in skeletal muscle. The mutation has major effects on muscle growth, size of the heart, and fat deposition. Here, we have identified the repressor and find that the protein, named ZBED6, is previously unknown, specific for placental mammals, and derived from an exapted DNA transposon. Silencing of Zbed6 in mouse C2C12 myoblasts affected Igf2 expression, cell proliferation, wound healing, and myotube formation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) sequencing using C2C12 cells identified about 2,500 ZBED6 binding sites in the genome, and the deduced consensus motif gave a perfect match with the established binding site in Igf2. Genes associated with ZBED6 binding sites showed a highly significant enrichment for certain Gene Ontology classifications, including development and transcriptional regulation. The phenotypic effects in mutant pigs and ZBED6-silenced C2C12 myoblasts, the extreme sequence conservation, its nucleolar localization, the broad tissue distribution, and the many target genes with essential biological functions suggest that ZBED6 is an important transcription factor in placental mammals, affecting development, cell proliferation, and growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. Genomewide Analysis of PRC1 and PRC2 Occupancy Identifies Two Classes of Bivalent Domains.
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Manching Ku, Koche, Richard P., Rheinbay, Esther, Mendenhall, Eric M., Endoh, Mitsuhiro, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Presser, Aviva, Nusbaum, Chad, Xiaohui Xie, Chi, Andrew S., Adli, Mazhar, Kasif, Simon, Ptaszek, Leon M., Cowan, Chad A., Lander, Eric S., Koseki, Haruhiko, and Bernstein, Bradley E.
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CHROMATIN ,EMBRYONIC stem cells ,GENOMES ,METHYLATION ,LYSINE ,GENE expression ,GENOMICS - Abstract
In embryonic stem (ES) cells, bivalent chromatin domains with overlapping repressive (H3 lysine 27 tri-methylation) and activating (H3 lysine 4 tri-methylation) histonemodifications mark the promoters of more than 2,000 genes. To gain insight into the structure and function of bivalent domains, we mapped key histone modifications and subunits of Polycomb-repressive complexes 1 and 2 (PRC1 and PRC2) genomewide in human and mouse ES cells by chromatin immunoprecipitation, followed by ultra high-throughput sequencing. We find that bivalent domains can be segregated into two classes—the first occupied by both PRC2 and PRC1 (PRC1-positive) and the second specifically bound by PRC2 (PRC2-only). PRC1-positive bivalent domains appear functionally distinct as they more efficiently retain lysine 27 tri-methylation upon differentiation, show stringent conservation of chromatin state, and associate with an overwhelming number of developmental regulator gene promoters.We also used computational genomics to search for sequence determinants of Polycomb binding. This analysis revealed that the genomewide locations of PRC2 and PRC1 can be largely predicted from the locations, sizes, and underlying motif contents of CpG islands. We propose that large CpG islands depleted of activating motifs confer epigenetic memory by recruiting the full repertoire of Polycomb complexes in pluripotent cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in conserved regions of the human genome, including thousands of CTCF insulator sites.
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Xiaohui Xie, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., Gnirke, Andreas, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Kellis, Manolis, and Lander, Eric S.
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Conserved noncoding elements (CNEs) constitute the majority of sequences under purifying selection in the human genome, yet their function remains largely unknown. Experimental evidence suggests that many of these elements play regulatory roles, but little is known about regulatory motifs contained within them. Here we describe a systematic approach to discover and characterize regulatory motifs within mammalian CNEs by searching for long motifs (12-22 nt) with significant enrichment in CNEs and studying their biochemical and genomic properties. Our analysis identifies 233 long motifs (LMs), matching a total of ≈60,000 conserved instances across the human genome. These motifs include 16 previously known regulatory elements, such as the histone 3'-UTR motif and the neuron-restrictive silencer element, as well as striking examples of novel functional elements. The most highly enriched motif (LM1) corresponds to the X-box motif known from yeast and nematode. We show that it is bound by the RFX1 protein and identify thousands of conserved motif instances, suggesting a broad role for the RFX family in gene regulation. A second group of motifs (LM2*) does not match any previously known motif. We demonstrate by biochemical and computational methods that it defines a binding site for the CTCF protein, which is involved in insulator function to limit the spread of gene activation. We identify nearly 15,000 conserved sites that likely serve as insulators, and we show that nearby genes separated by predicted CTCF sites show markedly reduced correlation in gene expression. These sites may thus partition the human genome into domains of expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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