PUBLICATION
A screen for regeneration-associated silencer regulatory elements in zebrafish
- Authors
- Ando, K., Ou, J., Thompson, J.D., Welsby, J., Bangru, S., Shen, J., Wei, X., Diao, Y., Poss, K.D.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-240131-2
- Date
- 2024
- Source
- Developmental Cell 59(5): 676-691.e5 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Ando, Kazunori, Bangru, Sushant, Ou, Jianhong, Poss, Kenneth D., Shen, Jingwen, Thompson, John D.
- Keywords
- enhancer, fin regeneration, heart regeneration, regeneration, screen, silencer, zebrafish
- Datasets
- GEO:GSE231771, GEO:GSE231956
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Silencer Elements, Transcriptional*
- Zebrafish*/genetics
- PubMed
- 38290519 Full text @ Dev. Cell
Citation
Ando, K., Ou, J., Thompson, J.D., Welsby, J., Bangru, S., Shen, J., Wei, X., Diao, Y., Poss, K.D. (2024) A screen for regeneration-associated silencer regulatory elements in zebrafish. Developmental Cell. 59(5):676-691.e5.
Abstract
Regeneration involves gene expression changes explained in part by context-dependent recruitment of transcriptional activators to distal enhancers. Silencers that engage repressive transcriptional complexes are less studied than enhancers and more technically challenging to validate, but they potentially have profound biological importance for regeneration. Here, we identified candidate silencers through a screening process that examined the ability of DNA sequences to limit injury-induced gene expression in larval zebrafish after fin amputation. A short sequence (s1) on chromosome 5 near several genes that reduce expression during adult fin regeneration could suppress promoter activity in stable transgenic lines and diminish nearby gene expression in knockin lines. High-resolution analysis of chromatin organization identified physical associations of s1 with gene promoters occurring preferentially during fin regeneration, and genomic deletion of s1 elevated the expression of these genes after fin amputation. Our study provides methods to identify "tissue regeneration silencer elements" (TRSEs) with the potential to reduce unnecessary or deleterious gene expression during regeneration.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping