Chorioamnionitis exposure remodels the unique histone modification landscape of neonatal monocytes and alters the expression of immune pathway genes.

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It leads to a fetal systemic inflammatory response that can alter the transcription of neonatal immune genes. We have previously shown that neonatal monocytes gain the activating histone tail modification H3K4me3 at promoter sites of immunologically important genes as development progresses from preterm neonate to adult. In this study, we applied ChIP-seq and RNA-seq to evaluate the impact of chorioamnionitis on the neonatal monocyte H3K4me3 histone modification landscape over the course of fetal and neonatal immune system development. Chorioamnionitis exposure in neonatal monocytes resulted in a net increase in total monocyte H3K4me3, primarily in introns and intergenic regions. Immune gene expression was decreased in chorioamnionitis-exposed monocytes, with the majority of enriched transcripts falling into pathways that are not linked to the immune system. Over half of all neonatal monocyte H3K4me3 peaks, independent of their location, were associated with active gene transcription. 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