Micrococcal nuclease sequencing of porcine sperm suggests enriched co-location between retained histones and genomic regions related to semen quality and early embryo development
Gòdia, Marta (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Lian, Yu (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Naval-Sanchez, Marina (CSIRO. Agriculture and Food)
Ponte Marull, Immaculada (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular)
Rodríguez Gil, Joan Enric (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals)
Sánchez Bonastre, Armando (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments)
Clop, Alex (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)

Data:	2023
Resum:	The mammalian spermatozoon has a unique chromatin structure in which the majority of histones are replaced by protamines during spermatogenesis and a small fraction of nucleosomes are retained at specific locations of the genome. The sperm's chromatin structure remains unresolved in most animal species, including the pig. However, mapping the genomic locations of retained nucleosomes in sperm could help understanding the molecular basis of both sperm development and function as well as embryo development. This information could then be useful to identify molecular markers for sperm quality and fertility traits. Here, micrococcal nuclease digestion coupled with high throughput sequencing was performed on pig sperm to map the genomic location of mono- and sub-nucleosomal chromatin fractions in relation to a set of diverse functional elements of the genome, some of which were related to semen quality and early embryogenesis. In particular, the investigated elements were promoters, the different sections of the gene body, coding and non-coding RNAs present in the pig sperm, potential transcription factor binding sites, genomic regions associated to semen quality traits and repeat elements. The analysis yielded 25,293 and 4,239 peaks in the mono- and sub-nucleosomal fractions, covering 0. 3% and 0. 02% of the porcine genome, respectively. A cross-species comparison revealed positional conservation of the nucleosome retention in sperm between the pig data and a human dataset that found nucleosome enrichment in genomic regions of importance in development. Both gene ontology analysis of the genes mapping nearby the mono-nucleosomal peaks and the identification of putative transcription factor binding motifs within the mono- and the sub- nucleosomal peaks showed enrichment for processes related to sperm function and embryo development. There was significant motif enrichment for Znf263, which in humans was suggested to be a key regulator of genes with paternal preferential expression during early embryogenesis. Moreover, enriched positional intersection was found in the genome between the mono-nucleosomal peaks and both the RNAs present in pig sperm and the RNAs related to sperm quality. There was no co-location between GWAS hits for semen quality in swine and the nucleosomal sites. Finally, the data evidenced depletion of mono-nucleosomes in long interspersed nuclear elements and enrichment of sub-nucleosomes in short interspersed repeat elements. These results suggest that retained nucleosomes in sperm could both mark regulatory elements or genes expressed during spermatogenesis linked to semen quality and fertility and act as transcriptional guides during early embryogenesis. The results of this study support the undertaking of ambitious research using a larger number of samples to robustly assess the positional relationship between histone retention in sperm and the reproductive ability of boars.
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad AGL2013-44978-R Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad AGL2017-86946-R Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014 SGR 1528 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017 SGR 1060 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BES-2014-070560 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad EEBB-I-16-11528
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Swine ; Sperm ; MNase-seq ; Chromatin ; Reproduction
Publicat a:	PeerJ, Vol. 11 (june 2023) , ISSN 2167-8359

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15520
PMID: 37361042

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