LINE-1 specific nuclear organization in mice olfactory sensory neurons.

Autor: Ormundo LF; Department of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal São Paulo - UNIFESP, Diadema, Brazil., Machado CF; Universidade Cidade de São Paulo - UNICID, São Paulo, Brazil., Sakamoto ED; Universidade Cidade de São Paulo - UNICID, São Paulo, Brazil., Simões V; Department of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal São Paulo - UNIFESP, Diadema, Brazil., Armelin-Correa L; Department of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal São Paulo - UNIFESP, Diadema, Brazil. Electronic address: lucia.correa@unifesp.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Molecular and cellular neurosciences [Mol Cell Neurosci] 2020 Jun; Vol. 105, pp. 103494. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2020.103494
Abstrakt: Long interspersed nuclear elements-1 (LINE-1) are mobile DNA elements that comprise the majority of interspersed repeats in the mammalian genome. During the last decade, these transposable sequences have been described as controlling elements involved in transcriptional regulation and genome plasticity. Recently, LINE-1 have been implicated in neurogenesis, but to date little is known about their nuclear organization in neurons. The olfactory epithelium is a site of continuous neurogenesis, and loci of olfactory receptor genes are enriched in LINE-1 copies. Olfactory neurons have a unique inverted nuclear architecture and constitutive heterochromatin forms a block in the center of the nuclei. Our DNA FISH images show that, even though LINE-1 copies are dispersed throughout the mice genome, they are clustered forming a cap around the central heterochromatin block and frequently occupy the same position as facultative heterochromatin in olfactory neurons nuclei. This specific LINE-1 organization could not be observed in other olfactory epithelium cell types. Analyses of H3K27me3 and H3K9me3 ChIP-seq data from olfactory epithelium revealed that LINE-1 copies located at OR gene loci show different enrichment for these heterochromatin marks. We also found that LINE-1 are transcribed in mouse olfactory epithelium. These results suggest that LINE-1 play a role in the olfactory neurons' nuclear architecture. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: LINE-1 are mobile DNA elements and comprise almost 20% of mice and human genomes. These retrotransposons have been implicated in neurogenesis. We show for the first time that LINE-1 retrotransposons have a specific nuclear organization in olfactory neurons, forming aggregates concentric to the heterochromatin block and frequently occupying the same region as facultative heterochromatin. We found that LINE-1 at olfactory receptor gene loci are differently enriched for H3K9me3 and H3K27me3, but LINE-1 transcripts could be detected in the olfactory epithelium. We speculate that these retrotransposons play an active role in olfactory neurons' nuclear architecture.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None.
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