QSER1 protects DNA methylation valleys from de novo methylation

Gary Dixon; Heng Pan; Dapeng Yang; Bess P. Rosen; Therande Jashari; Nipun Verma; Julian Pulecio; Inbal Caspi; Kihyun Lee; Stephanie Stransky; Abigail Glezer; Chang Liu; Marco Rivas; Ritu Kumar; Yahui Lan; Ingrid Torregroza; Chuan He; Simone Sidoli; Todd Evans; Olivier Elemento; Danwei Huangfu

doi:10.1126/science.abd0875

QSER1 protects DNA methylation valleys from de novo methylation

Gary Dixon, Heng Pan, Dapeng Yang, Bess P. Rosen, Therande Jashari, Nipun Verma, Julian Pulecio, Inbal Caspi, Kihyun Lee, Stephanie Stransky, Abigail Glezer, Chang Liu, Marco Rivas, Ritu Kumar, Yahui Lan, Ingrid Torregroza, Chuan He, Simone Sidoli, Todd Evans, Olivier ElementoDanwei Huangfu

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DNA methylation is essential to mammalian development, and dysregulation can cause serious pathological conditions. Key enzymes responsible for deposition and removal of DNA methylation are known, but how they cooperate to regulate the methylation landscape remains a central question. Using a knockin DNA methylation reporter, we performed a genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screen in human embryonic stem cells to discover DNA methylation regulators. The top screen hit was an uncharacterized gene, QSER1, which proved to be a key guardian of bivalent promoters and poised enhancers of developmental genes, especially those residing in DNA methylation valleys (or canyons). We further demonstrate genetic and biochemical interactions of QSER1 and TET1, supporting their cooperation to safeguard transcriptional and developmental programs from DNMT3-mediated de novo methylation.

Original language	English
Article number	eabd0875
Journal	Science
Volume	372
Issue number	6538
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd0875
State	Published - 9 Apr 2021

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Dixon, G., Pan, H., Yang, D., Rosen, B. P., Jashari, T., Verma, N., Pulecio, J., Caspi, I., Lee, K., Stransky, S., Glezer, A., Liu, C., Rivas, M., Kumar, R., Lan, Y., Torregroza, I., He, C., Sidoli, S., Evans, T., ... Huangfu, D. (2021). QSER1 protects DNA methylation valleys from de novo methylation. Science, 372(6538), [eabd0875]. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd0875

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