The pluripotent regulatory circuitry connecting promoters to their long-range interacting elements
File(s)Genome Res.-2015-Schoenfelder-582-97.pdf (3.2 MB)
Published version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The mammalian genome harbors up to one million regulatory elements often located at great distances from their target genes. Long-range elements control genes through physical contact with promoters and can be recognized by the presence of specific histone modifications and transcription factor binding. Linking regulatory elements to specific promoters genome-wide is currently impeded by the limited resolution of high-throughput chromatin interaction assays. Here we apply a sequence capture approach to enrich Hi-C libraries for >22,000 annotated mouse promoters to identify statistically significant, long-range interactions at restriction fragment resolution, assigning long-range interacting elements to their target genes genome-wide in embryonic stem cells and fetal liver cells. The distal sites contacting active genes are enriched in active histone modifications and transcription factor occupancy, whereas inactive genes contact distal sites with repressive histone marks, demonstrating the regulatory potential of the distal elements identified. Furthermore, we find that coregulated genes cluster nonrandomly in spatial interaction networks correlated with their biological function and expression level. Interestingly, we find the strongest gene clustering in ES cells between transcription factor genes that control key developmental processes in embryogenesis. The results provide the first genome-wide catalog linking gene promoters to their long-range interacting elements and highlight the complex spatial regulatory circuitry controlling mammalian gene expression.
Date Issued
2015-03-09
Date Acceptance
2015-02-11
Citation
Genome Research, 2015, 25 (4), pp.582-597
ISSN
1549-5469
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Start Page
582
End Page
597
Journal / Book Title
Genome Research
Volume
25
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2015 Schoenfelder et al.; Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. This article, published in Genome Research, is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.
License URL
Subjects
Animals
Binding Sites
Chromatin
Embryonic Stem Cells
Enhancer Elements, Genetic
Epigenesis, Genetic
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
Histones
Liver
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Promoter Regions, Genetic
Transcription Factors
Bioinformatics
06 Biological Sciences
11 Medical And Health Sciences
Publication Status
Published