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. 2022 Nov 16;28(4):1571–1584. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01862-7

Fig. 2. EtOH affects chromatin accessibility in regions critical for neurodevelopment.

Fig. 2

ag ATAC-seq analysis of two-month old control and EtOH-exposed cortical organoids. a Transcription start site (TSS) enrichment plot showing TSS ± 1.0 Kb for each sample. ‘Control 1’, ‘Control 2’, ‘EtOH 1’, and ‘EtOH 2’ labels denote independent batches of organoids made from the WT83 cell line. b Venn diagram depicts peaks in EtOH-exposed and control organoids. c, d Motif enrichment in control (c) and EtOH-exposed (d) organoids. e Plotting enrichment P values identifies prominent regions of altered accessibility. f Tracks plot of select prominent genes. g Reactome analysis predicts that the effects of altered chromatin accessibility concentrate in physiological processes central to neurodevelopment. h, i Mass spectrometry analysis shows histone modifications in astrocytes, cortical organoids, and fetal neurons (hNE) attributable to EtOH-exposure; cortical organoids and astrocytes were generated from the WT83 iPS cell line. Heatmap shows EtOH exposure modifies histone methylation (ME) and acetylation (AC) patterns in diverse neural cell types; scale bar portrays relative abundance of modification across samples: red=high compared to other samples, blue=low compared to other samples (h). A recurrent pattern of modifications is observed between astrocytes, organoids, and fetal neurons; only statistically significant differences in relative modification abundance are shown (i).