Asymmetry in histone H3 variants and lysine methylation between paternal and maternal chromatin of the early mouse zygote - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2005 Sep;122(9):1008-22.

doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2005.04.009.

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Asymmetry in histone H3 variants and lysine methylation between paternal and maternal chromatin of the early mouse zygote

Godfried W van der Heijden et al. Mech Dev. 2005 Sep.

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Abstract

In mammalian fertilization, the paternal genome is delivered to the secondary oocyte by sperm with protamine compacted DNA, while the maternal genome is arrested in meiotic metaphase II. Thus, at the beginning of fertilization, the two gametic chromatin sets are strikingly different. We elaborate on this contrast by reporting asymmetry for histone H3 type in the pre-S-phase zygote when male chromatin is virtually devoid of histone H3.1/3.2. Localization of the histone H3.3/H4 assembly factor Hira with the paternal chromatin indicates the presence of histone H3.3. In conjunction with this, we performed a systematic immunofluorescence analysis of histone N-tail methylations at position H3K4, H3K9, H3K27 and H4K20 up to the young pronucleus stage and show that asymmetries reported earlier are systematic for virtually all di- and tri-methylations but not for mono-methylation of H3K4 and H4K20, the only marks studied present in the early male pronucleus. For H4K20 the expanding male chromatin is rapidly mono-methylated. This coincides with the formation of maternally derived nucleosomes, a process which is observed as early as sperm chromatin decondensation occurs. Absence of tri-methylated H3K9, tri-methylated H4K20 and presence of loosely anchored HP1-beta combined with the homogenous presence of mono-methylated H4K20 suggests the absence of a division of the paternal chromatin in eu- and heterochromatin. In summary the male, in contrast to female G1 chromatin, is uniform and contains predominantly histone H3.3 as histone H3 variant.

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