Long-range enhancer interactions are prevalent in mouse embryonic stem cells and are reorganized upon pluripotent state transition
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Abstract
Transcriptional enhancers, including super-enhancers (SEs), form physical interactions with promoters to regulate cell-type-specific gene expression. SEs are characterized by high transcription factor occupancy and large domains of active chromatin, and they are commonly assigned to target promoters using computational predictions. How promoter-SE interactions change upon cell state transitions, and whether transcription factors maintain SE interactions, have not been reported. Here, we used promoter-capture Hi-C to identify promoters that interact with SEs in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs). We found that SEs form complex, spatial networks in which individual SEs contact multiple promoters, and a rewiring of promoter-SE interactions occurs between pluripotent states. We also show that long-range promoter-SE interactions are more prevalent in ESCs than in epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs) or Nanog-deficient ESCs. We conclude that SEs form cell-type-specific interaction networks that are partly dependent on core transcription factors, thereby providing insights into the gene regulatory organization of pluripotent cells.
Date Issued
2018-03-06
Date Acceptance
2018-02-09
Citation
Cell Reports, 2018, 22 (10), pp.2615-2627
ISSN
2211-1247
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
2615
End Page
2627
Journal / Book Title
Cell Reports
Volume
22
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Cell Biology
CAPTURE HI-C
SUPER-ENHANCERS
NANOG LOCUS
CHROMATIN INTERACTIONS
LOOPING INTERACTIONS
PRIMED PLURIPOTENCY
SELF-RENEWAL
GENOME
DIFFERENTIATION
GENES
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-03-06