Analysis of zebrafish periderm enhancers facilitates identification of a regulatory variant near human KRT8/18
Abstract
Genome wide association studies for non-syndromic orofacial cleft (OFC) have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at loci where the presumed risk-relevant gene is expressed in oral periderm. The functional subsets of such SNPs are difficult to predict because the sequence underpinnings of periderm enhancers are unknown. We applied ATAC-seq to models of human palate periderm, including zebrafish periderm, mouse embryonic palate epithelia, and a human oral epithelium cell line, and to complementary mesenchymal cell types. We identified sets of enhancers specific to the epithelial cells and trained gapped-kmer support-vector-machine classifiers on these sets. We used the classifiers to predict the effect of 14 OFC-associated SNPs at 12q13 near KRT18. All the classifiers picked the same SNP as having the strongest effect, but the significance was highest with the classifier trained on zebrafish periderm. Reporter and deletion analyses support this SNP as lying within a periderm enhancer regulating KRT18/KRT8 expression.
Data availability
1 Raw and processed sequencing data were deposited in GEO repository (GSE140241, GSE139945 and GSE139809).2 Custom scripts and piplines we deployed for sequencing data analysis and visualization are available at https://github.com/Badgerliu/periderm_ATACSeq.3 All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. Source data files have been provided for Figures.
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Zebrafish periderm at 4-somite stageNCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, GSE140241.
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ATAC-seq profile of mouse palatal epithelium at E14.5NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, GSE139945.
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Human oral epithelial cell line HIOECNCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, GSE139809.
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ChIP-seq from embryonic facial prominence (ENCSR481SGM)NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, GSE82727.
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127-reference epigenome/25-state Imputation Based Chromatin State Model127-reference epigenome/25-state Imputation Based Chromatin State Model.
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Funding
National Institutes of Health (DE023575)
- Robert A Cornell
National Institute for Health Research (DE027362)
- Robert A Cornell
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE025060)
- Elizabeth Leslie
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE024427)
- Axel Visel
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE028599)
- Axel Visel
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81771057)
- Huan Liu
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81400477)
- Huan Liu
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2017CFB515)
- Huan Liu
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: D. rerio were maintained in the University of Iowa Animal Care Facility according to a standard protocol (protocol no. 6011616). All mouse experiments were performed in accordance with approval of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at the School and Hospital of Stomatology of Wuhan University (protocol no. 00271454).Mouse experiments for LacZ reporter transgenic animal work performed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) were reviewed and approved by the LBNL Animal Welfare and Research Committee.
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© 2020, Liu et al.
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