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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41556-020-0489-9
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- Wellcome Trust 4-Year PhD Programme in Stem Cell Biology and Medicine
- University of Cambridge, UK
- The Company of Biologists [DEV-180505]
- Wellcome
- MRC
- Bloodwise
- CRUK
- NIH-NIDDK
- Wellcome Strategic Award [105031/Z/14/Z]
- UC San Diego School of Medicine
- Wellcome Trust [105031/Z/14/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- MRC [MR/S036113/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Pijuan-Sala et al. present a comprehensive single-nucleus open chromatin map of early mouse embryogenesis and validate the role of ETS transcription factor FEV in endothelial identity in zebrafish. During mouse embryonic development, pluripotent cells rapidly divide and diversify, yet the regulatory programs that define the cell repertoire for each organ remain ill-defined. To delineate comprehensive chromatin landscapes during early organogenesis, we mapped chromatin accessibility in 19,453 single nuclei from mouse embryos at 8.25 days post-fertilization. Identification of cell-type-specific regions of open chromatin pinpointed two TAL1-bound endothelial enhancers, which we validated using transgenic mouse assays. Integrated gene expression and transcription factor motif enrichment analyses highlighted cell-type-specific transcriptional regulators. Subsequent in vivo experiments in zebrafish revealed a role for the ETS factor FEV in endothelial identity downstream of ETV2 (Etsrp in zebrafish). Concerted in vivo validation experiments in mouse and zebrafish thus illustrate how single-cell open chromatin maps, representative of a mammalian embryo, provide access to the regulatory blueprint for mammalian organogenesis.
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