Enhancer activation mechanisms in cranial neural crest osteoblast differentiation

颅神经嵴成骨细胞分化的增强子激活机制

基本信息

批准号：
10366793
负责人：
Karl Bryan Shpargel
金额：
$ 36.37万
依托单位：
UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-09-01 至 2025-07-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10366793
关键词：
Acetylesterase Anterior Binding Binding Proteins Biochemical Biochemical Genetics Biology Bromodomain Cartilage Cell Count Cell Differentiation process Cell Lineage Cell physiology Cells Cephalic Chromatin Chromatin Remodeling Factor Chromatin Structure Cleft Palate Complex Data Defect Development Disease Downstream Enhancer Ear Embryo Enhancers Enzymes Epigenetic Process Etiology Event Exhibits Face Gene Expression Regulation Genetic Genetic Diseases Genetic Transcription Genome Genomic approach Genomics Histone Acetylation Histone H3 Histones Homologous Gene Human Impairment Kabuki Make-Up Syndrome Knock-in Knock-out Lead Location Lysine Mandible Maps Methylation Methyltransferase Modeling Molecular Molecular Analysis Multipotent Stem Cells Mus Mutate Mutation Neural Crest Neural Crest Cell Neurophysiology - biologic function Osteoblasts Osteogenesis Pathogenesis Pathogenicity Pathway interactions Phenocopy Phenotype Play Point Mutation Post-Translational Protein Processing Process Proteins Proteomics Publishing Reader Regulation Regulatory Pathway Reporter Research Role Shapes Sorting - Cell Movement Therapeutic Tissues Transcriptional Activation Y Chromosome base chromatin remodeling craniofacial craniofacial development craniofacial disorder experience experimental study face bone structure histone methylation histone methyltransferase histone modification improved in vivo loss of function morphogens mutant novel osteoblast differentiation programs protein complex recruit skull base stem cell biology stem cells transcription factor

项目摘要

Project Summary Enhancers play a vital role in initiating and maintaining expression of cell specific transcriptional programs. A key feature in enhancer activation and gene regulation is changing the local chromatin state to facilitate binding of transcriptional co-regulators to enhancers. Chromatin-modifying enzymes that are associated with enhancer function are commonly mutated in human craniofacial disorders including histone methylases, demethylases, acetylases, chromatin readers, and chromatin remodeling proteins. Many of these chromatin-modifying factors biochemically associate and may co-regulate enhancer and transcriptional activation events within neural crest, stem cells from which anterior facial bone and cartilage are derived. We have modeled several of these human craniofacial disorders through tissue specific knockout of chromatin-modifying factors in mouse neural crest cells. The experiments outlined in this proposal will characterize de novo enhancer activation by chromatin profiling of primary cranial neural crest cells undergoing osteoblast differentiation. Neural crest cells deficient in chromatin-modifying machinery will be analyzed molecularly for disruption of enhancer chromatin states and to identify cooperative functions between these factors. This proposal will utilize a combination of biochemical, genetic, and low cell number genomic approaches to elucidate the role of chromatin-based enhancer activation in craniofacial disorder pathogenesis.

项目摘要增强剂在启动和维持细胞特定转录程序的表达方面起着至关重要的作用。一个增强子激活和基因调节的关键特征正在改变局部染色质状态，以促进结合转录共同调节器向增强子。与增强剂相关的染色质修饰酶功能通常在人类颅面疾病中突变，包括组蛋白甲基酶，去甲基酶，乙酰基酶，染色质读取器和染色质重塑蛋白。这些染色质修饰因子中的许多在生物化学上关联，并可能在神经内共同调节增强子和转录激活事件波峰，衍生前面部骨骼和软骨的干细胞。我们已经建模了其中几个通过组织特异性敲除染色质修饰因子的人类颅面疾病，小鼠神经波峰细胞。该提案中概述的实验将表征从头增强子激活原发性颅神经rest细胞的染色质分析经历了成骨细胞分化。神经rest细胞将分子分析染色质修饰机械的缺乏以破坏增强蛋白国家并确定这些因素之间的合作功能。该建议将利用生化，遗传和低细胞数基因组方法，以阐明基于染色质的作用颅面疾病发病机理中的增强子激活。