Metabolic control of histone acetylation for precise and timely regulation of minor ZGA in early mammalian embryos

Metabolism feeds into the regulation of epigenetics via metabolic enzymes and metabolites. However, metabolic features, and their impact on epigenetic remodeling during mammalian pre-implantation development, remain poorly understood. In this study, we established the metabolic landscape of mouse pr...

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Published in:Cell discovery 2022-09, Vol.8 (1), p.96-96, Article 96
Main Authors: Li, Jingyu, Zhang, Jiaming, Hou, Weibo, Yang, Xu, Liu, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Yan, Gao, Meiling, Zong, Ming, Dong, Zhixiong, Liu, Zhonghua, Shen, Jingling, Cong, Weitao, Ding, Chunming, Gao, Shaorong, Huang, Guoning, Kong, Qingran
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Language:English
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Acetylation
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Cell Biology
Cell Culture
Cell Cycle Analysis
Cell Physiology
Embryos
Epigenetics
Glycolysis
Histones
Life Sciences
Metabolism
Metabolites
Methionine
NAD
Proteomics
SIRT1 protein
Stem Cells
Transcriptomics
Tricarboxylic acid cycle
Zygotes
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Summary:Metabolism feeds into the regulation of epigenetics via metabolic enzymes and metabolites. However, metabolic features, and their impact on epigenetic remodeling during mammalian pre-implantation development, remain poorly understood. In this study, we established the metabolic landscape of mouse pre-implantation embryos from zygote to blastocyst, and quantified some absolute carbohydrate metabolites. We integrated these data with transcriptomic and proteomic data, and discovered the metabolic characteristics of the development process, including the activation of methionine cycle from 8-cell embryo to blastocyst, high glutaminolysis metabolism at blastocyst stage, enhanced TCA cycle activity from the 8-cell embryo stage, and active glycolysis in the blastocyst. We further demonstrated that oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD + ) synthesis is indispensable for mouse pre-implantation development. Mechanistically, in part, NAD + is required for the exit of minor zygotic gene activation (ZGA) by cooperating with SIRT1 to remove zygotic H3K27ac. In human, NAD + supplement can promote the removal of zygotic H3K27ac and benefit pre-implantation development. Our findings demonstrate that precise and timely regulation of minor ZGA is controlled by metabolic dynamics, and enhance our understanding of the metabolism of mammalian early embryos.
ISSN:2056-5968
2056-5968
DOI:10.1038/s41421-022-00440-z