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Integrating Transcriptomic and ChIP-Seq Reveals Important Regulatory Regions Modulating Gene Expression in Myometrium during Implantation in Pigs.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Wang, Weiwei Cao, Caiqin Zhang, Botao Wang, Feiyu Deng, Dadong Cao, Jianhua Li, Hua Yu, Mei |
| Editor | Li, Mingqing Benagiano, Giuseppe |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | The myometrium is the outer layer of the uterus. Its contraction and steroidogenic activities are required for embryo implantation. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying its functions remain unknown in pigs. The myometrium includes the inner circular muscle (CM) and the outer longitudinal muscle (LM) layers. In this study, we collected the CM and LM samples from the mesometrial side (named M) of the uterus on days 12 (pre-implantation stage) and 15 (implantation stage) of pregnancy and day 15 of the estrous cycle. The transcriptomic results revealed distinct differences between the uterine CM and LM layers in early pregnancy: the genes expressed in the LM layer were mainly related to contraction pathways, whereas the transcriptional signatures in the CM layer on day 15 of pregnancy were primarily involved in the immune response processes. Subsequent comparisons in the CM layer between pregnant and cyclic gilts show that the transcriptional signatures of the CM layer are implantation-dependent. Next, we investigated the genome-wide profiling of histone H3 lysine 27 acetylation (H3K27ac) and histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) in pig uterine CM and LM layers. The genomic regions that had transcriptional activity and were associated with the expression of genes in the two layers were characterized. Taken together, the regulatory regions identified in the study may contribute to modulating the gene expression in pig uterine CM and LM layers during implantation. |
| Journal | Biomolecules |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC9856092 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| PubMed reference number | 36671430 |
| e-ISSN | 2218273X |
| DOI | 10.3390/biom13010045 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-12-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2022 by the authors. |
| Subject Keyword | pigs implantation myometrium regulatory regions H3K27ac H3K4me3 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Biochemistry Molecular Biology |