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Comprehensive characterization of tissue-specific chromatin accessibility in L2 Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes
- Source :
- Genome Research. 31:1952-1969
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2021.
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Abstract
- Recently developed single-cell technologies allow researchers to characterize cell states at ever greater resolution and scale. Caenorhabditis elegans is a particularly tractable system for studying development, and recent single-cell RNA-seq studies characterized the gene expression patterns for nearly every cell type in the embryo and at the second larval stage (L2). Gene expression patterns give insight about gene function and into the biochemical state of different cell types; recent advances in other single-cell genomics technologies can now also characterize the regulatory context of the genome that gives rise to these gene expression levels at a single-cell resolution. To explore the regulatory DNA of individual cell types in C. elegans, we collected single-cell chromatin accessibility data using the sci-ATAC-seq assay in L2 larvae to match the available single-cell RNA-seq data set. By using a novel implementation of the latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm, we identify 37 clusters of cells that correspond to different cell types in the worm, providing new maps of putative cell type–specific gene regulatory sites, with promise for better understanding of cellular differentiation and gene regulation.
- Subjects :
- Regulation of gene expression
0303 health sciences
biology
Cellular differentiation
Genomics
Context (language use)
Computational biology
biology.organism_classification
Genome
Chromatin
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Genetics
Gene
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Genetics (clinical)
Caenorhabditis elegans
030304 developmental biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15495469 and 10889051
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Genome Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6fe8da6dae0b90b92a635ce93b371681