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GSE38448
Homo sapiens
1 Downloadable Sample
Illumina HumanHT-12 V3.0 expression beadchip
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Publication Title
Independence of repressive histone marks and chromatin compaction during senescent heterochromatic layer formation.
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Sex, Cell line, Treatment
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- 1 Downloadable Sample
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V3.0 expression beadchip
Description
The expansion of repressive epigenetic marks has been implicated in heterochromatin formation during embryonic development, but the general applicability of this mechanism is unclear. Here we show that nuclear rearrangement of repressive histone marks H3K9me3 and H3K27me3 into non-overlapping structural layers characterizes senescence-associated heterochromatic foci (SAHF) formation in human fibroblasts. However, the global landscape of these repressive marks remains unchanged upon SAHF formation, suggesting that in somatic cells heterochromatin can be formed through the spatial repositioning of pre-existing repressively marked histones. This model is reinforced by the correlation of pre-senescent replication timing with both the subsequent layered structure of SAHFs and the global landscape of the repressive marks, allowing us to integrate microscopic and genomic information. Furthermore, modulation of SAHF structure does not affect the occupancy of these repressive marks nor vice versa. These experiments reveal that high-order heterochromatin formation and epigenetic remodeling of the genome can be discrete events.
Publication Title
Independence of repressive histone marks and chromatin compaction during senescent heterochromatic layer formation.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Cell line, Treatment
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