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Series GSE40178 Query DataSets for GSE40178
Status Public on Dec 03, 2018
Title Human Sperm Epigenomes and Transcriptomes Reveal Novel Features of Enhancers, Sex Chromosomes, piRNAs, Gametogenesis, and Inherited Small RNAs (Bisulfite-Seq)
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Methylation profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary To better understand the paternally inherited epigenome and transcriptome, we profiled multiple histone modifications, histone H3.3 variant, cytosine DNA methylation at base-pair resolution, and small RNA transcriptomes. We report new and surprising features of enhancers, pluripotency factor targets, spermiogenesis genes, piRNA clusters, CpG islands, partially methylated domains, imprinted loci, repetitive elements and sex chromosomes. First, we find that enhancers for embryonic transcription factors bear H3K27me3, but low H3K14ac and DNA methylation -- consistent with poising for future activation -- whereas enhancers near genes active in gametogenesis have high H3K27ac/H3K14ac, consistent with past activation. Second, binding site regions (in ES cells) for the pluripotency factors SOX2 and NANOG are DNA methylated in sperm, suggesting a need for zygotic demethylation/reprogramming. Unexpectedly, genes for spermiogenesis (but not spermatogenesis), and almost half of piRNA cluster promoters, bear both H3K4me3 and DNA methylation, a co-incidence not previously observed in mammals. Furthermore, we find major assymetries in H3.3 and H3K9me3 density between the X and Y chromosomes after MSCI. Lastly, deep sequencing reveals >10-fold increase in the known repertoire of retained/inherited miRNAs and piRNAs than previous estimates. Thus, the paternal epigenome contributes a mosaic of epigenetic regions that reflect past gametogenesis or poising for subsequent embryonic developmental regulation -- and a complex repertoire of small RNAs.
 
Overall design Sperm from two fertile donors were subjected independently to genome-wide bisulfite sequencing.
 
Contributor(s) Hammoud SS, Nix DA, Oler AJ, Carrell D, Cairns BR
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Submission date Aug 16, 2012
Last update date May 15, 2019
Contact name Andrew J Oler
E-mail(s) andrew.oler@nih.gov
Organization name NIAID/NIH
Department Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB)
Lab Computational Biology Section
Street address 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62E
City Bethesda
State/province MD
ZIP/Postal code 20892
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL11154 Illumina HiSeq 2000 (Homo sapiens)
Samples (2)
GSM987860 Sperm Donor1 Bisulfite Sequencing
GSM987861 Sperm Donor2 Bisulfite Sequencing
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE40196 Human Sperm Epigenomes and Transcriptomes Reveal Novel Features of Enhancers, Sex Chromosomes, piRNAs, Gametogenesis, and Inherited Small RNAs
Relations
BioProject PRJNA173073
SRA SRP014898

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE40178_BisStatFullCoverageGraphs.tar.gz 6.3 Gb (ftp)(http) TAR
GSE40178_BisStat_GCContexts.tar.gz 655.2 Mb (ftp)(http) TAR
GSE40178_D1D2_HypermethylatedLoci_FractionMethylation_greater_than_0.8_SerializedWindowObjectsMin0.8Max1.0.bed.gz 4.9 Mb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE40178_D1D2_HypomethylatedLoci_Less20_FractionMethylation_SerializedWindowObjectsMin1.0E-4Max0.2.bed.gz 671.9 Kb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE40178_NBP.tar.gz 3.9 Gb (ftp)(http) TAR
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