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Dynamics of transcriptional programs and chromatin accessibility in mouse spermatogonial cells from early postnatal to adult life.

Irina Lazar-Contes, Rodrigo G Arzate-Mejia, Deepak K Tanwar, Leonard C Steg, Kerem Uzel, Olivier Ulrich Feudjio, Marion Crespo, Pierre-Luc Germain, Isabelle M Mansuy

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9 authors.

Irina Lazar-Contes *Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics, Brain Research Institute, Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Rodrigo G Arzate-Mejia *Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics, Brain Research Institute, Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Deepak K Tanwar *Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics, Brain Research Institute, Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Leonard C StegLaboratory of Neuroepigenetics, Brain Research Institute, Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Kerem UzelLaboratory of Neuroepigenetics, Brain Research Institute, Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Olivier Ulrich FeudjioADLIN Science, Pépinière «Genopole Entreprises», Evry, France.
Marion CrespoADLIN Science, Pépinière «Genopole Entreprises», Evry, France.
Pierre-Luc GermainLaboratory of Neuroepigenetics, Brain Research Institute, Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3418-4218
Isabelle M MansuyLaboratory of Neuroepigenetics, Brain Research Institute, Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7785-5371

Funding

ETH ETH-10 15-2ETH ETH-17 13-2ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship 20-1 FEL-28European Union Horizon 2020 Research Innovation Program 848158Swiss National Science Foundation 182880/Phase 2 and 205601/Phase 3Swiss National Science Foundation 31003A_175742/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In mammals, spermatogonial cells (SPGs) are undifferentiated male germ cells in testis that are quiescent until birth and then self-renew and differentiate to produce spermatogenic cells and functional sperm from early postnatal life throughout adulthood. The transcriptome of SPGs is highly dynamic and timely regulated during postnatal development. We examined if such dynamics involves changes in chromatin organization by profiling the transcriptome and chromatin accessibility of SPGs from early postnatal stages to adulthood in mice using deep RNA-seq, ATAC-seq and computational deconvolution analyses. By integrating transcriptomic and epigenomic features, we show that SPGs undergo massive chromatin remodeling during postnatal development that partially correlates with distinct gene expression profiles and transcription factors (TF) motif enrichment. We identify genomic regions with significantly different chromatin accessibility in adult SPGs that are marked by histone modifications associated with enhancers and promoters. Some of the regions with increased accessibility correspond to transposable element subtypes enriched in multiple TFs motifs and close to differentially expressed genes. Our results underscore the dynamics of chromatin organization in developing germ cells and complement existing datasets on SPGs by providing maps of the regulatory genome at high resolution from the same cell populations at early postnatal, late postnatal and adult stages collected from single individuals.

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ChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalSpermatogoniaTranscriptomeAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingMaleMiceTranscription FactorsChromatinTranscription FactorsChromatindevelopmentgeneticsgenomicsmouseRNAspermatogonial cellstranscription

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PMID40231607
PMCPMC11999699

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