Master lineage transcription factors anchor trans mega transcriptional complexes at highly accessible enhancer sites to promote long-range chromatin clustering and transcription of distal target genes
| Autor: | Michael Snyder, Shannon M White, Chunling Yi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Lineage (genetic) AcademicSubjects/SCI00010 Gene regulation Chromatin and Epigenetics genetic processes Computational biology Biology Mega Chromatin Enhancer Elements Genetic Mediator Gene Expression Regulation Transcription (biology) Cell Line Tumor Genetics Humans natural sciences Enhancer Gene Transcription factor Transcription Factors |
| Zdroj: | Nucleic Acids Research |
| ISSN: | 1362-4962 0305-1048 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/nar/gkab1105 |
| Popis: | The term ‘super enhancers’ (SE) has been widely used to describe stretches of closely localized enhancers that are occupied collectively by large numbers of transcription factors (TFs) and co-factors, and control the transcription of highly-expressed genes. Through integrated analysis of >600 DNase-seq, ChIP-seq, GRO-seq, STARR-seq, RNA-seq, Hi-C and ChIA-PET data in five human cancer cell lines, we identified a new class of autonomous SEs (aSEs) that are excluded from classic SE calls by the widely used Rank Ordering of Super-Enhancers (ROSE) method. TF footprint analysis revealed that compared to classic SEs and regular enhancers, aSEs are tightly bound by a dense array of master lineage TFs, which serve as anchors to recruit additional TFs and co-factors in trans. In addition, aSEs are preferentially enriched for Cohesins, which likely involve in stabilizing long-distance interactions between aSEs and their distal target genes. Finally, we showed that aSEs can be reliably predicted using a single DNase-seq data or combined with Mediator and/or P300 ChIP-seq. Overall, our study demonstrates that aSEs represent a unique class of functionally important enhancer elements that distally regulate the transcription of highly expressed genes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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