Dowen Jill M, Fan Zi Peng, Hnisz Denes, Ren Gang, Abraham Brian J, Zhang Lyndon N, Weintraub Abraham S, Schujiers Jurian, Lee Tong Ihn, Zhao Keji, Young Richard A
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Computational and Systems Biology Program.
Cell. 2014 Oct 9;159(2):374-387. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.030.
The pluripotent state of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) is produced by active transcription of genes that control cell identity and repression of genes encoding lineage-specifying developmental regulators. Here, we use ESC cohesin ChIA-PET data to identify the local chromosomal structures at both active and repressed genes across the genome. The results produce a map of enhancer-promoter interactions and reveal that super-enhancer-driven genes generally occur within chromosome structures that are formed by the looping of two interacting CTCF sites co-occupied by cohesin. These looped structures form insulated neighborhoods whose integrity is important for proper expression of local genes. We also find that repressed genes encoding lineage-specifying developmental regulators occur within insulated neighborhoods. These results provide insights into the relationship between transcriptional control of cell identity genes and control of local chromosome structure.
胚胎干细胞(ESC)的多能状态是由控制细胞身份的基因的活跃转录以及编码谱系特异性发育调节因子的基因的抑制所产生的。在这里,我们使用ESC黏连蛋白ChIA-PET数据来识别全基因组中活跃基因和抑制基因处的局部染色体结构。结果生成了一个增强子-启动子相互作用图谱,并揭示了超级增强子驱动的基因通常出现在由两个被黏连蛋白共同占据的相互作用的CTCF位点环化形成的染色体结构内。这些环状结构形成了绝缘邻域,其完整性对于局部基因的正确表达很重要。我们还发现,编码谱系特异性发育调节因子的抑制基因出现在绝缘邻域内。这些结果为细胞身份基因的转录控制与局部染色体结构控制之间的关系提供了见解。