PMID- 25912690 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150810 LR - 20231115 IS - 1095-564X (Electronic) IS - 0012-1606 (Print) IS - 0012-1606 (Linking) VI - 402 IP - 2 DP - 2015 Jun 15 TI - Imprinted expression in cystic embryoid bodies shows an embryonic and not an extra-embryonic pattern. PG - 291-305 LID - S0012-1606(15)00210-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.04.010 [doi] AB - A large subset of mammalian imprinted genes show extra-embryonic lineage (EXEL) specific imprinted expression that is restricted to placental trophectoderm lineages and to visceral yolk sac endoderm (ysE). Isolated ysE provides a homogenous in vivo model of a mid-gestation extra-embryonic tissue to examine the mechanism of EXEL-specific imprinted gene silencing, but an in vitro model of ysE to facilitate more rapid and cost-effective experiments is not available. Reports indicate that ES cells differentiated into cystic embryoid bodies (EBs) contain ysE, so here we investigate if cystic EBs model ysE imprinted expression. The imprinted expression pattern of cystic EBs is shown to resemble fetal liver and not ysE. To investigate the reason for this we characterized the methylome and transcriptome of cystic EBs in comparison to fetal liver and ysE, by whole genome bisulphite sequencing and RNA-seq. Cystic EBs show a fetal liver pattern of global hypermethylation and low expression of repeats, while ysE shows global hypomethylation and high expression of IAPEz retroviral repeats, as reported for placenta. Transcriptome analysis confirmed that cystic EBs are more similar to fetal liver than ysE and express markers of early embryonic endoderm. Genome-wide analysis shows that ysE shares epigenetic and repeat expression features with placenta. Contrary to previous reports, we show that cystic EBs do not contain ysE, but are more similar to the embryonic endoderm of fetal liver. This explains why cystic EBs reproduce the imprinted expression seen in the embryo but not that seen in the ysE. CI - Copyright (c) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Kulinski, Tomasz M AU - Kulinski TM AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: tkulinski@ibb.waw.pl. FAU - Casari, M Rita T AU - Casari MR AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: rcasari@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Guenzl, Philipp M AU - Guenzl PM AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: pguenzl@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Wenzel, Daniel AU - Wenzel D AD - IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: daniel.wenzel@imba.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Andergassen, Daniel AU - Andergassen D AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: dandergassen@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Hladik, Anastasiya AU - Hladik A AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Department of Medicine 1, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: ahladik@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Datlinger, Paul AU - Datlinger P AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: pdatlinger@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Farlik, Matthias AU - Farlik M AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: mfarlik@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Theussl, H-Christian AU - Theussl HC AD - IMP/IMBA Transgenic Service, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Dr. Bohr Gasse 7, 1030 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: christian.theussl@imp.ac.at. FAU - Penninger, Josef M AU - Penninger JM AD - IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: josef.penninger@imba.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Knapp, Sylvia AU - Knapp S AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Department of Medicine 1, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: sknapp@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Bock, Christoph AU - Bock C AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: cbock@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Barlow, Denise P AU - Barlow DP AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: dbarlow@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. FAU - Hudson, Quanah J AU - Hudson QJ AD - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH-BT25.3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: qhudson@cemm.oeaw.ac.at. LA - eng GR - P 25185/FWF_/Austrian Science Fund FWF/Austria PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150424 PL - United States TA - Dev Biol JT - Developmental biology JID - 0372762 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Cell Differentiation/physiology MH - Chromatin Immunoprecipitation MH - Computational Biology MH - *DNA Methylation MH - Embryoid Bodies/*metabolism MH - Endoderm/metabolism MH - Gene Expression Profiling MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/*genetics MH - Genomic Imprinting/*genetics MH - Histological Techniques MH - In Situ Hybridization MH - Mice MH - *Models, Biological MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Sequence Analysis, RNA MH - Yolk Sac/cytology/metabolism PMC - PMC4454777 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cystic embryoid bodies (EBs) OT - DNA methylation OT - Genomic imprinting OT - Visceral endoderm (VE) OT - Visceral yolk sac (VYS) OT - Visceral yolk sac Endoderm (ysE) EDAT- 2015/04/29 06:00 MHDA- 2015/08/11 06:00 PMCR- 2015/06/15 CRDT- 2015/04/28 06:00 PHST- 2014/09/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/04/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/04/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/04/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/04/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/08/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/06/15 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0012-1606(15)00210-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.04.010 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dev Biol. 2015 Jun 15;402(2):291-305. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.04.010. Epub 2015 Apr 24.