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RNA-dependent chromatin targeting of TET2 for endogenous retrovirus control in pluripotent stem cells

  • Diana Guallar
  • , Xianju Bi
  • , Jose Angel Pardavila
  • , Xin Huang
  • , Carmen Saenz
  • , Xianle Shi
  • , Hongwei Zhou
  • , Francesco Faiola
  • , Junjun Ding
  • , Phensinee Haruehanroengra
  • , Fan Yang
  • , Dan Li
  • , Carlos Sanchez-Priego
  • , Arven Saunders
  • , Feng Pan
  • , Victor Julian Valdes
  • , Kevin Kelley
  • , Miguel G. Blanco
  • , Lingyi Chen
  • , Huayan Wang
  • Jia Sheng, Mingjiang Xu, Miguel Fidalgo, Xiaohua Shen, Jianlong Wang
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela
  • Tsinghua University
  • Nankai University
  • SUNY Albany
  • Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University
  • University of Miami
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Abstract

Ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins play key roles in the regulation of DNA-methylation status by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to generate 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), which can both serve as a stable epigenetic mark and participate in active demethylation. Unlike the other members of the TET family, TET2 does not contain a DNA-binding domain, and it remains unclear how it is recruited to chromatin. Here we show that TET2 is recruited by the RNA-binding protein Paraspeckle component 1 (PSPC1) through transcriptionally active loci, including endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) whose long terminal repeats (LTRs) have been co-opted by mammalian genomes as stage- and tissue-specific transcriptional regulatory modules. We found that PSPC1 and TET2 contribute to ERVL and ERVL-associated gene regulation by both transcriptional repression via histone deacetylases and post-transcriptional destabilization of RNAs through 5hmC modification. Our findings provide evidence for a functional role of transcriptionally active ERVs as specific docking sites for RNA epigenetic modulation and gene regulation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)443-451
Number of pages9
JournalNature Genetics
Volume50
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2018

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