作者: Jessica Milano-Foster , Soma Ray , Pratik Home , Avishek Ganguly , Bhaswati Bhattacharya
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摘要: A successful pregnancy is critically dependent upon proper placental development and function. During human placentation, villous cytotrophoblast (CTB) progenitors differentiate to form syncytiotrophoblasts (SynTBs), which provide the exchange surface between mother fetus secrete hormones ensure progression of pregnancy. However, epigenetic mechanisms that regulate SynTB differentiation from CTB are incompletely understood. Here, we show lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1; also known as KDM1A), a histone demethylase, essential this process. LSD1 expressed both in differentiated SynTBs first-trimester villi; accordingly, expression maintained throughout gestation. Impairment function trophoblast inhibits induction endogenous retrovirally encoded genes SYNCYTIN1/endogenous retrovirus group W member 1, envelope (ERVW1) SYNCYTIN2/endogenous FRD (ERVFRD1), encoding fusogenic proteins critical syncytialization. Loss impairs chorionic gonadotropin α (CGA) β (CGB) genes, encode subunits gonadotrophin (hCG), hormone modulate maternal physiology during Mechanistic analyses at ERVW1, CGA, CGB loci revealed regulatory axis induces demethylation repressive H3 lysine 9 dimethylation (H3K9Me2) interacts with transcription factor GATA2 promote RNA polymerase II (RNA-POL-II) recruitment activate gene transcription. Our study reveals novel LSD1–GATA2 axis, regulates