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  • Neurog3-Independent Methylation Is the Earliest Detectable Mark Distinguishing Pancreatic Progenitor Identity.

Neurog3-Independent Methylation Is the Earliest Detectable Mark Distinguishing Pancreatic Progenitor Identity.

Developmental cell (2019-01-09)
Jing Liu, Amrita Banerjee, Charles A Herring, Jonathan Attalla, Ruiying Hu, Yanwen Xu, Qiujia Shao, Alan J Simmons, Prasanna K Dadi, Sui Wang, David A Jacobson, Bindong Liu, Emily Hodges, Ken S Lau, Guoqiang Gu
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In the developing pancreas, transient Neurog3-expressing progenitors give rise to four major islet cell types: α, β, δ, and γ; when and how the Neurog3+ cells choose cell fate is unknown. Using single-cell RNA-seq, trajectory analysis, and combinatorial lineage tracing, we showed here that the Neurog3+ cells co-expressing Myt1 (i.e., Myt1+Neurog3+) were biased toward β cell fate, while those not simultaneously expressing Myt1 (Myt1-Neurog3+) favored α fate. Myt1 manipulation only marginally affected α versus β cell specification, suggesting Myt1 as a marker but not determinant for islet-cell-type specification. The Myt1+Neurog3+ cells displayed higher Dnmt1 expression and enhancer methylation at Arx, an α-fate-promoting gene. Inhibiting Dnmts in pancreatic progenitors promoted α cell specification, while Dnmt1 overexpression or Arx enhancer hypermethylation favored β cell production. Moreover, the pancreatic progenitors contained distinct Arx enhancer methylation states without transcriptionally definable sub-populations, a phenotype independent of Neurog3 activity. These data suggest that Neurog3-independent methylation on fate-determining gene enhancers specifies distinct endocrine-cell programs.

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胰高血糖素抗体,克隆13D11.33, clone 13D11.33, from mouse