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author Magri, Marta S
Voronov, Danila
Foley, Saoirse
Martínez-García, Pedro Manuel
Franke, Martin
Cary, Gregory A
Santos-Pereira, José M
Cuomo, Claudia
Fernández-Moreno, Manuel
Portela, Marta
Gil-Galvez, Alejandro
Acemel, Rafael D
Paganos, Periklis
Ku, Carolyn
Ranđelović, Jovana
Rusciano, Maria Lorenza
Firbas, Panos N
Gómez-Skarmeta, José Luis
Hinman, Veronica F
Arnone, Maria Ina
Maeso, Ignacio
author_facet Magri, Marta S
Voronov, Danila
Foley, Saoirse
Martínez-García, Pedro Manuel
Franke, Martin
Cary, Gregory A
Santos-Pereira, José M
Cuomo, Claudia
Fernández-Moreno, Manuel
Portela, Marta
Gil-Galvez, Alejandro
Acemel, Rafael D
Paganos, Periklis
Ku, Carolyn
Ranđelović, Jovana
Rusciano, Maria Lorenza
Firbas, Panos N
Gómez-Skarmeta, José Luis
Hinman, Veronica F
Arnone, Maria Ina
Maeso, Ignacio
Magri, Marta S
Voronov, Danila
Foley, Saoirse
Martínez-García, Pedro Manuel
Franke, Martin
Cary, Gregory A
Santos-Pereira, José M
Cuomo, Claudia
Fernández-Moreno, Manuel
Portela, Marta
Gil-Galvez, Alejandro
Acemel, Rafael D
Paganos, Periklis
Ku, Carolyn
Ranđelović, Jovana
Rusciano, Maria Lorenza
Firbas, Panos N
Gómez-Skarmeta, José Luis
Hinman, Veronica F
Arnone, Maria Ina
Maeso, Ignacio
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes. Magri, Marta S Voronov, Danila Foley, Saoirse Martínez-García, Pedro Manuel Franke, Martin Cary, Gregory A Santos-Pereira, José M Cuomo, Claudia Fernández-Moreno, Manuel Portela, Marta Gil-Galvez, Alejandro Acemel, Rafael D Paganos, Periklis Ku, Carolyn Ranđelović, Jovana Rusciano, Maria Lorenza Firbas, Panos N Gómez-Skarmeta, José Luis Hinman, Veronica F Arnone, Maria Ina Maeso, Ignacio Animals Genome Chromatin Echinodermata Evolution, Molecular Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Starfish Despite the growing abundance of sequenced animal genomes, we only have detailed knowledge of regulatory organization for a handful of lineages, particularly flies and vertebrates. These two taxa show contrasting trends in the molecular mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization and long-term evolutionary dynamics of cis-regulatory element (CRE) conservation. Here we study the evolution and organization of the regulatory genome of echinoderms, a lineage whose phylogenetic position and relatively slow molecular evolution have proven particularly useful for evolutionary studies. We generated new reference genome assemblies for two species belonging to two different echinoderm classes: the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and the bat sea star Patiria miniata using PacBio and HiC data and characterize their 3D chromatin architecture. We show that these echinoderms have TAD-like domains that, such as in flies, do not seem to be associated with CTCF motif orientation. We systematically profiled CREs during sea star and sea urchin development using ATAC-seq, comparing their regulatory logic and dynamics over multiple developmental stages. Finally, our analysis of sea urchin and sea star CRE evolution across multiple evolutionary distances and timescales showed several thousand elements conserved for hundreds of millions of years, revealing a vertebrate-like pattern of CRE evolution that probably constitutes an ancestral property of the regulatory evolution of animals.
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spellingShingle Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes.
Magri, Marta S
Voronov, Danila
Foley, Saoirse
Martínez-García, Pedro Manuel
Franke, Martin
Cary, Gregory A
Santos-Pereira, José M
Cuomo, Claudia
Fernández-Moreno, Manuel
Portela, Marta
Gil-Galvez, Alejandro
Acemel, Rafael D
Paganos, Periklis
Ku, Carolyn
Ranđelović, Jovana
Rusciano, Maria Lorenza
Firbas, Panos N
Gómez-Skarmeta, José Luis
Hinman, Veronica F
Arnone, Maria Ina
Maeso, Ignacio
Animals
Genome
Chromatin
Echinodermata
Evolution, Molecular
Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Starfish
Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes. Magri, Marta S Voronov, Danila Foley, Saoirse Martínez-García, Pedro Manuel Franke, Martin Cary, Gregory A Santos-Pereira, José M Cuomo, Claudia Fernández-Moreno, Manuel Portela, Marta Gil-Galvez, Alejandro Acemel, Rafael D Paganos, Periklis Ku, Carolyn Ranđelović, Jovana Rusciano, Maria Lorenza Firbas, Panos N Gómez-Skarmeta, José Luis Hinman, Veronica F Arnone, Maria Ina Maeso, Ignacio Animals Genome Chromatin Echinodermata Evolution, Molecular Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Starfish Despite the growing abundance of sequenced animal genomes, we only have detailed knowledge of regulatory organization for a handful of lineages, particularly flies and vertebrates. These two taxa show contrasting trends in the molecular mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization and long-term evolutionary dynamics of cis-regulatory element (CRE) conservation. Here we study the evolution and organization of the regulatory genome of echinoderms, a lineage whose phylogenetic position and relatively slow molecular evolution have proven particularly useful for evolutionary studies. We generated new reference genome assemblies for two species belonging to two different echinoderm classes: the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and the bat sea star Patiria miniata using PacBio and HiC data and characterize their 3D chromatin architecture. We show that these echinoderms have TAD-like domains that, such as in flies, do not seem to be associated with CTCF motif orientation. We systematically profiled CREs during sea star and sea urchin development using ATAC-seq, comparing their regulatory logic and dynamics over multiple developmental stages. Finally, our analysis of sea urchin and sea star CRE evolution across multiple evolutionary distances and timescales showed several thousand elements conserved for hundreds of millions of years, revealing a vertebrate-like pattern of CRE evolution that probably constitutes an ancestral property of the regulatory evolution of animals.
title Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes.
topic Animals
Genome
Chromatin
Echinodermata
Evolution, Molecular
Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Starfish
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41501227/