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Temporal Epigenomic Profiling Identifies AHR and GLIS1 As Super bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/183988; this version posted March 26, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Gerard et al.: Time-series epigenomic profiles of mesenchymal differentiation 1 Temporal epigenomic profiling identifies AHR and 2 GLIS1 as super-enhancer controlled regulators of 3 mesenchymal multipotency 4 Deborah Gérard1, Florian Schmidt2,3, Aurélien Ginolhac1, Martine Schmitz1, 5 Rashi Halder4, Peter Ebert3, Marcel H. Schulz2,3, Thomas Sauter1 and Lasse 6 Sinkkonen1* 7 1Life Sciences Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, L-4367 Belvaux, 8 Luxembourg 9 2Excellence Cluster for Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Saarland Informatics 10 Campus, Germany 11 3Computational Biology & Applied Algorithmics, Max Planck Institute for 12 Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany 13 4Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur- 14 Alzette, L-4362, Luxembourg 15 16 [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 17 [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 18 [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 19 20 *Corresponding author: Dr. Lasse Sinkkonen 21 Life Sciences Research Unit, University of Luxembourg 22 6, Avenue du Swing, L-4367 Belvaux, Luxembourg 23 Tel.: +352-4666446839 24 E-mail: [email protected] 25 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/183988; this version posted March 26, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Gerard et al.: Time-series epigenomic profiles of mesenchymal differentiation 1 ABSTRACT 2 Temporal data on gene expression and context-specific open chromatin states can 3 improve identification of key transcription factors (TFs) and the gene regulatory 4 networks (GRNs) controlling cellular differentiation. However, their integration 5 remains challenging. Here, we delineate a general approach for data-driven and 6 unbiased identification of key TFs and dynamic GRNs, called EPIC-DREM. We 7 generated time-series transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles during differentiation of 8 mouse multipotent bone marrow stromal cells (MSCs) towards adipocytes and 9 osteoblasts. Using our novel approach we constructed time-resolved GRNs for both 10 lineages. To prioritize the identified shared regulators, we mapped dynamic super- 11 enhancers in both lineages and associated them to target genes with correlated 12 expression profiles. We identified aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) and Glis family 13 zinc finger 1 (GLIS1) as mesenchymal key TFs controlled by dynamic MSC-specific 14 super-enhancers that become repressed in both lineages. AHR and GLIS1 control 15 differentiation-induced genes and we propose they function as guardians of 16 mesenchymal multipotency. 17 18 19 20 21 22 Keywords: gene regulatory network / epigenomics / super-enhancer / 23 mesenchymal differentiation / AHR / adipocyte / osteoblast / 24 Notch signaling / 2 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/183988; this version posted March 26, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Gerard et al.: Time-series epigenomic profiles of mesenchymal differentiation 1 INTRODUCTION 2 Understanding the gene regulatory interactions underlying cell differentiation and 3 identity has become increasingly important, especially in regenerative medicine. 4 Efficient and specific reprogramming of cells towards desired differentiated cell types 5 relies on understanding of the cell type-specific regulators and their targets (Rackham 6 et al., 2016). Similarly, knowledge of the regulatory wiring in the intermediate stages 7 might allow controlled partial dedifferentiation, and thereby endogenous regeneration, 8 also in mammals (Aguirre et al., 2014). 9 Great progress has been made in reconstruction of GRNs for various cell types in 10 recent years. While successful, many of the approaches derive their regulatory 11 interactions from existing literature and databases, which may be limiting as the 12 majority of enhancers harboring transcription factor (TF) binding sites are cell type- 13 specific (Forrest et al., 2014). Thus, the regulatory interactions derived from existing 14 databases and literature might be misleading and are likely to miss important 15 interactions that have not been observed in other cell types. Therefore, context- 16 specific expression data have been used to overcome such biases and allow a data- 17 driven network reconstruction (Janky et al., 2014). In addition, other approaches 18 taking advantage of time-series data, such as Dynamic Regulatory Events Miner 19 (DREM) (Schulz et al., 2012), have been developed to allow hierarchical 20 identification of the regulatory interactions. However, while time-series epigenomic 21 data has been used in different studies to derive time point-specific GRNs (Ramirez et 22 al., 2017) (Goode et al., 2016), systematic approaches that integrate the different types 23 of data in an intuitive and automated way are missing. 24 The central key genes of biological networks under multi-way regulation by many 25 TFs and signaling pathways were recently shown to be enriched for disease genes and 3 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/183988; this version posted March 26, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Gerard et al.: Time-series epigenomic profiles of mesenchymal differentiation 1 are often controlled through so called super-enhancers (SEs), large regulatory regions 2 characterized by broad signals for enhancer marks like H3 lysine 27 acetylation 3 (H3K27ac) (Galhardo et al., 2015) (Hnisz et al., 2013) (Parker et al., 2013) (Siersbaek 4 et al., 2014). Hundreds of SEs can be identified per cell type, many of which are cell 5 type- or lineage-specific and usually control genes that are important for the identity 6 of the given cell type or condition. Thus, SE mapping and SE target identification can 7 facilitate unbiased identification of novel key genes. 8 An example of lineage specification events with biomedical relevance is the 9 differentiation of multipotent bone marrow stromal progenitor cells (MSCs) towards 10 two mesenchymal cell types: osteoblasts and bone marrow adipocytes. Due to their 11 shared progenitor cells, there is a reciprocal balance in the relationship between 12 osteoblasts and bone marrow adipocytes. Proper osteoblast differentiation and 13 maturation towards osteocytes is important in bone fracture healing and osteoporosis 14 and osteoblast secreted hormones like osteocalcin can influence insulin resistance (N. 15 K. Lee et al., 2007) (Silva & Kousteni, 2012). At the same time bone marrow 16 adipocytes, that occupy as much as 70% of the human bone marrow (Fazeli et al., 17 2013), are a major source of hormones promoting metabolic health, including insulin 18 sensitivity (Cawthorn et al., 2014). Moreover, increased commitment of the MSCs 19 towards the adipogenic lineage upon obesity and aging was recently shown to inhibit 20 both bone healing and the hematopoietic niche (Ambrosi et al., 2017). 21 Extensive temporal epigenomic analysis of osteoblastogenesis has been recently 22 reported (H. Wu et al., 2017). However, a parallel investigation of two lineages 23 originating from the same progenitor cells can help to understand both the lineage- 24 specific and the shared regulators important for their (de)differentiation. To identify 25 shared regulators of adipocyte and osteoblast commitment and to delineate a general 4 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/183988; this version posted March 26, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Gerard et al.: Time-series epigenomic profiles of mesenchymal differentiation 1 approach for systematic unbiased identification of key regulators, we performed time- 2 series epigenomic and transcriptomic profiling at 6 different time points over 15 day 3 differentiation of MSCs towards both adipocytes and osteoblasts. We combine 4 segmentation-based TF binding predictions from time point-specific active enhancer 5 data (Schmidt et al., 2017) with probabilistic modeling of temporal gene expression 6 data (Schulz et al., 2012) to derive dynamic GRNs for both lineages. By merging 7 overlapping SEs identified using H3K27ac signal from different time points we 8 obtained dynamic profiles of SE activity across the two differentiations and use these 9 dynamic SEs to prioritize the key regulators identified through the network 10 reconstruction. With this approach, we identified aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) 11 and Glis family zinc finger 1 (GLIS1) as central regulators of multipotent MSCs
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