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Deletion of DXZ4 on the human inactive X chromosome alters higher-order genome architecture

Emily M. Darrow, Miriam H. Huntley, Olga Dudchenko, Elena K. Stamenova, Neva C. Durand, Zhuo Sun, Su-Chen Huang, Adrian L. Sanborn, Ido Machol, Muhammad Shamim, Andrew P. Seberg, Eric S. Lander, Brian P. Chadwick, and Erez Lieberman Aiden
  1. aDepartment of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306;
  2. bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
  3. cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
  4. dJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;
  5. eBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139;
  6. fCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030;
  7. gDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
  8. hDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
  9. iDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115;
  10. jDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005;
  11. kDepartment of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005

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PNAS August 2, 2016 113 (31) E4504-E4512; first published July 18, 2016; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609643113
Emily M. Darrow
aDepartment of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306;
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Miriam H. Huntley
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
dJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;
eBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139;
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Olga Dudchenko
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
fCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030;
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Elena K. Stamenova
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
eBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139;
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Neva C. Durand
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
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Zhuo Sun
aDepartment of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306;
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Su-Chen Huang
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
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Adrian L. Sanborn
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
fCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030;
gDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
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Ido Machol
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
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Muhammad Shamim
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
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Andrew P. Seberg
aDepartment of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306;
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Eric S. Lander
eBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139;
hDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
iDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115;
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  • For correspondence: erez@erez.com lander@broadinstitute.org chadwick@bio.fsu.edu
Brian P. Chadwick
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Erez Lieberman Aiden
bThe Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
cDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030;
eBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139;
fCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030;
jDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005;
kDepartment of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
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  • For correspondence: erez@erez.com lander@broadinstitute.org chadwick@bio.fsu.edu
  1. Contributed by Eric S. Lander, June 24, 2016 (sent for review May 8, 2016; reviewed by Frank Alber, Marisa S. Bartolomei, Uta Francke, and Sundeep Kalantry)

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    The Xi chromosome superstructure is conserved across human, rhesus macaque, and mouse. (A) Superdomains on the Xi chromosome are conserved across human, rhesus macaque, and mouse. The boundary of the superdomains lies at DXZ4 and its orthologs. In diploid Hi-C maps of mouse, the superdomain is seen only on the Xi chromosome. (Resolution: 100 kb.) For all contact maps, the color scale of each map goes from 0 (white) to red, whose value is given by the red square in each map. The chromosome icons are colored gray to indicate unphased maps of the X chromosome, in which data from both the Xi and Xa chromosomes are superimposed; they are colored red to indicate diploid Xi-only maps or green to indicate diploid Xa-only maps. The phased SNP calls used to generate homolog-specific maps are outlined in SI Appendix, Supplementary Materials and Methods. (B) A superloop forms between DXZ4 and FIRRE in human. Superloops are present at orthologous positions in rhesus macaque and mouse. In diploid Hi-C maps of mouse, the superloop is only seen on the Xi chromosome. (Resolution: 50 kb.)

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    Concatemers produced by proximity ligation indicate simultaneous colocation of three or more loci. (A) In COLA, concatemers spanning three or more fragments are created by cutting chromatin using CviJI, followed by DNA–DNA proximity ligation in intact nuclei. (B) Contact triples visualized as a 3D contact tensor. Broad patterns of contacts can be revealed by slicing the tensor and examining the results at low resolution. (C) A planar cut of the contact tensor enables the examination of all triples containing DXZ4. Enlargement: Enrichment is seen in the plane at x75(–DXZ4)–FIRRE. (Resolution: 800 kb.) (D) A different cut makes it possible to study triples in the vicinity of ICCE. Superloop triples (ICCE–)DXZ4–FIRRE and (ICCE–)x75–FIRRE are highlighted. (Resolution: 2 Mb.)

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    The ICCE–DXZ4 and DXZ4–FIRRE superloops tend to occur simultaneously, forming a hub on the Xi chromosome. (A) Examination of a small region from the 3D contact tensor of the X chromosome, centered on ICCE, DXZ4, and FIRRE, reveals a peak relative to the local neighborhood. Five contacts are seen in the (300 kb)3 voxel (i.e., 3D pixel) associated with simultaneous colocation of all three loci. There are more than 2,000 other (300 kb)3 voxels in the region shown; the number of contacts in each is indicated by the color. Of these voxels, five contain two contacts each, 74 contain one contact each, and more than 2,000 voxels contain no contacts. Note that because of the fixed bin width, the voxel size presented in this figure, (300 kb)3, is slightly larger than (and has slightly more contacts than) the exact volume defined by ICCE–DXZ4–FIRRE boundaries, which was used for the analyses in the main text. (B) The average frequency of contact in various local neighborhoods surrounding the ICCE–DXZ4–FIRRE peak. The peak is strongly enriched with respect to every model. (C) Representative examples of direct-labeled three-color DNA FISH in GM12878, a female cell line, showing collocation of ICCE–DXZ4–FIRRE. FISH signals overlay DAPI (blue) and are merged in the panel at the far right. The white arrowhead indicates a three-way overlap on one X chromosome.

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    Deletion of DX4 disrupts compartmentalization, distribution of histone marks, and replication timing. (A) Immunofluorescence showing the distribution of H3K9me3 (green, indirect immunofluorescence) and H3K27me3 (red, direct immunofluorescence) in wild-type RPE1 cells at interphase. White arrowheads indicate the location of the Xi chromosome that is expanded in the panels to the right, showing the corresponding nuclei. (B) A correlation matrix derived from the contact map of the wild-type RPE1 Xi chromosome reveals two distinct long-range contact patterns, indicating two subcompartments (first column, numbered left to right). These patterns are reflected in its principal eigenvector, which is shown to the right of the matrix (second column). The color of the eigenvector indicates its sign and thus the long-range pattern exhibited by the corresponding locus (Resolution: 500 kb.) One of these subcompartments correlates well with H3K27me3 ChIP-Seq in RPE1 (third column), as well as with a representative metaphase Xi chromosome showing the distribution of H3K27me3 (green, indirect immunofluorescence) merged with DAPI (blue) in RPE1 (fourth column), and with a representative metaphase Xi chromosome showing the pattern of EdU incorporation (red) merged with DAPI (blue) (fifth column). The yellow arrowheads indicate the H3K27me3 band between x100 and DXZ4 that replicates earlier in S-phase. (C) A correlation matrix derived from the contact map of the RPE1-ΔDXZ4i Xi chromosome (first column); its principal eigenvector (second column); a representative RPE1-ΔDXZ4i metaphase Xi chromosome showing the distribution of H3K9me3 (green, indirect immunofluorescence) and H3K27me3 (red, direct immunofluorescence) (third column); a representative metaphase Xi chromosome showing the distribution of H3K27me3 (green, indirect immunofluorescence) merged with DAPI (blue) (fourth column); and a representative metaphase Xi chromosome showing the pattern of EdU incorporation (red) merged with DAPI (blue) (fifth column). The compartment interval between x100 and DX74 is compromised, and corresponding changes are seen in metaphase histone mark distribution and in replication timing.

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    Deletion of DXZ4 eliminates the Xi chromosome superstructure. (A) Maps of the Xa chromosome in RPE1 (Left), RPE1-ΔDXZ4a (Center), and RPE1-ΔDXZ4i (Right) cells. Compartmentalization is seen. Superstructure is absent. The chromosome icons are colored gray to indicate unphased maps of the X chromosome, in which data from both Xi and Xa chromosomes are superimposed; they are colored red to indicate diploid Xi-only maps; and they are colored green to indicate diploid Xa-only maps. The phased SNP calls used to generate homolog-specific maps are outlined in the SI Appendix. (B) Maps of the Xi chromosome in RPE1 (Left), RPE1-ΔDXZ4a (Center), and RPE1-ΔDXZ4i (Right) cells exhibit compartmentalization with unusually long compartment intervals. Superdomains are present in wild-type RPE1 cells and remain after DXZ4 is deleted on the Xa chromosome but not after DXZ4 is deleted on the Xi chromosome. (Resolution: 500 kb.) (C) The DXZ4–FIRRE superloop is present in wild-type RPE1 (Left) and in RPE1-ΔDXZ4a (Center) cells but disappears in RPE1-ΔDXZ4i cells (Right). (Resolution: 50 kb.)

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    (A) In our physical model of loop formation by extrusion (26), an extrusion complex comprising two DNA-binding subunits is loaded onto chromatin. The subunits form a loop by sliding in opposite directions. When they arrive at an anchor site, they have a probability of binding and thus halting the extrusion process. (B) We generated an ensemble of Patski Xi chromosome configurations using the extrusion model, with anchor-binding probabilities drawn from Ctcf ChIP-Seq data in Patski. We calculated a contact map from this ensemble. (Left) A superdomain boundary is formed at Dxz4. (Right) A superloop forms between Dxz4 and Firre. The icon in the upper right corner of each map indicates that these maps were generated in silico, using physical simulations, rather than via experiment. (C) Simulating the deletion of Dxz4 leads to the disappearance of the superdomain (Left) and superloop (Right).

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DXZ4 and the inactive X chromosome
Emily M. Darrow, Miriam H. Huntley, Olga Dudchenko, Elena K. Stamenova, Neva C. Durand, Zhuo Sun, Su-Chen Huang, Adrian L. Sanborn, Ido Machol, Muhammad Shamim, Andrew P. Seberg, Eric S. Lander, Brian P. Chadwick, Erez Lieberman Aiden
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