Spermatozoa methylome and its sensitivity to water temperature in a teleost fish. 2023

Aurélien Brionne, and Anne-Sophie Goupil, and Stéphanie Kica, and Jean-Jacques Lareyre, and Catherine Labbé, and Audrey Laurent
INRAE, UR1037 LPGP, Fish Physiology and Genomics, Campus de Beaulieu, F-35000 Rennes, France.

Global climate change and heat waves are sources of stress which fish are facing in the wild as well as in aquaculture context. In coping with important environmental variations, they demonstrate a great plasticity and a tendency for acclimation throughout generations. Here, we question whether fish might be prone to transmit epigenetic alterations through their gametes to their offspring, thus driving rapid environmental adaptation. The question of epigenetic inheritance in fish has become of crucial interest in the recent years, when the mammalian model of methylome erasure in germ cells and embryos was found not to be conserved. In this work, by sequencing spermatozoa after bisulfite conversion, we characterized the methylation landscape of the paternal gamete in rainbow trout (in comparison to muscle) before to demonstrate its sensitivity to a 4 °C increased rearing temperature during spermatogenesis. We found that spermatozoa methylome specifically primes housekeeping and developmental genes for activation and might be instrumental to early development. Most of these methylation-free promoters were not affected by temperature, attesting the robustness of the epigenetic programming of early development. However, the increase of temperature triggered the differential methylation of 5359 regions, among which 560 gene promoters control spermiogenesis and lipid metabolism. We therefore report, for the first time in fish, that sperm epigenetic landscape carries marks of parental thermal living conditions, suggesting that DNA methylation might be a molecular basis of intergenerational inheritance.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008322 Mammals Warm-blooded vertebrate animals belonging to the class Mammalia, including all that possess hair and suckle their young. Mammalia,Mammal
D000081122 Epigenome A network of chemical compounds surrounding DNA that modify the genome without altering the DNA sequences and have a role in determining which genes are active in a cell. DNA Methylome,Methylome,DNA Methylomes,Epigenomes,Methylome, DNA,Methylomes,Methylomes, DNA
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012661 Semen The thick, yellowish-white, viscid fluid secretion of male reproductive organs discharged upon ejaculation. In addition to reproductive organ secretions, it contains SPERMATOZOA and their nutrient plasma. Seminal Plasma,Plasma, Seminal
D013094 Spermatozoa Mature male germ cells derived from SPERMATIDS. As spermatids move toward the lumen of the SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES, they undergo extensive structural changes including the loss of cytoplasm, condensation of CHROMATIN into the SPERM HEAD, formation of the ACROSOME cap, the SPERM MIDPIECE and the SPERM TAIL that provides motility. Sperm,Spermatozoon,X-Bearing Sperm,X-Chromosome-Bearing Sperm,Y-Bearing Sperm,Y-Chromosome-Bearing Sperm,Sperm, X-Bearing,Sperm, X-Chromosome-Bearing,Sperm, Y-Bearing,Sperm, Y-Chromosome-Bearing,Sperms, X-Bearing,Sperms, X-Chromosome-Bearing,Sperms, Y-Bearing,Sperms, Y-Chromosome-Bearing,X Bearing Sperm,X Chromosome Bearing Sperm,X-Bearing Sperms,X-Chromosome-Bearing Sperms,Y Bearing Sperm,Y Chromosome Bearing Sperm,Y-Bearing Sperms,Y-Chromosome-Bearing Sperms
D013696 Temperature The property of objects that determines the direction of heat flow when they are placed in direct thermal contact. The temperature is the energy of microscopic motions (vibrational and translational) of the particles of atoms. Temperatures
D044127 Epigenesis, Genetic A genetic process by which the adult organism is realized via mechanisms that lead to the restriction in the possible fates of cells, eventually leading to their differentiated state. Mechanisms involved cause heritable changes to cells without changes to DNA sequence such as DNA METHYLATION; HISTONE modification; DNA REPLICATION TIMING; NUCLEOSOME positioning; and heterochromatization which result in selective gene expression or repression. Epigenetic Processes,Epigenetic Process,Epigenetics Processes,Genetic Epigenesis,Process, Epigenetic,Processes, Epigenetic,Processes, Epigenetics
D019175 DNA Methylation Addition of methyl groups to DNA. DNA methyltransferases (DNA methylases) perform this reaction using S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE as the methyl group donor. DNA Methylations,Methylation, DNA,Methylations, DNA

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