Frontiers in Neuroscience (Jun 2023)

Single-cell chromatin accessibility profiling of cell-state-specific gene regulatory programs during mouse organogenesis

  • Qiuting Deng,
  • Qiuting Deng,
  • Shengpeng Wang,
  • Shengpeng Wang,
  • Zijie Huang,
  • Zijie Huang,
  • Qing Lan,
  • Guangyao Lai,
  • Jiangshan Xu,
  • Yue Yuan,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Xiumei Lin,
  • Xiumei Lin,
  • Weimin Feng,
  • Weimin Feng,
  • Wen Ma,
  • Mengnan Cheng,
  • Shijie Hao,
  • Shijie Hao,
  • Shanshan Duan,
  • Shanshan Duan,
  • Huiwen Zheng,
  • Xiaoyan Chen,
  • Yong Hou,
  • Yong Hou,
  • Yingjie Luo,
  • Longqi Liu,
  • Longqi Liu,
  • Longqi Liu,
  • Longqi Liu,
  • Chuanyu Liu,
  • Chuanyu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1170355
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17

Abstract

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In mammals, early organogenesis begins soon after gastrulation, accompanied by specification of various type of progenitor/precusor cells. In order to reveal dynamic chromatin landscape of precursor cells and decipher the underlying molecular mechanism driving early mouse organogenesis, we performed single-cell ATAC-seq of E8.5-E10.5 mouse embryos. We profiled a total of 101,599 single cells and identified 41 specific cell types at these stages. Besides, by performing integrated analysis of scATAC-seq and public scRNA-seq data, we identified the critical cis-regulatory elements and key transcription factors which drving development of spinal cord and somitogenesis. Furthermore, we intersected accessible peaks with human diseases/traits-related loci and found potential clinical associated single nucleotide variants (SNPs). Overall, our work provides a fundamental source for understanding cell fate determination and revealing the underlying mechanism during postimplantation embryonic development, and expand our knowledge of pathology for human developmental malformations.

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