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H3K4me3 Breadth Is Linked to Cell Identity and Transcriptional Consistency
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Trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 4 (H3K4me3) is a chromatin modification known to mark the transcription start sites of active genes. Here, we show that H3K4me3 domains that spread more broadly over genes in a given cell type preferentially mark genes that are essential for the identity and function of that cell type. Using the broadest H3K4me3 domains as a discovery tool in neural progenitor cells, we identify novel regulators of these cells. Machine learning models reveal that the broadest H3K4me3 domains represent a distinct entity, characterized by increased marks of elongation. The broadest H3K4me3 domains also have more paused polymerase at their promoters, suggesting a unique transcriptional output. Indeed, genes marked by the broadest H3K4me3 domains exhibit enhanced transcriptional consistency and [corrected] increased transcriptional levels, and perturbation of H3K4me3 breadth leads to changes in transcriptional consistency. Thus, H3K4me3 breadth contains information that could ensure transcriptional precision at key cell identity/function genes.
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“Interestingly, H3K4me3 domains vary in breadth in a locus- and cell-type-specific manner (Benayoun et al., 2014; Chen et al., 2015), and these differences could provide clues about the context-dependent roles of this mark during aging.”
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“The breadth of the H3K4me3 mark has been previously linked to cell identity, gene expression and transcriptional consistency across a variety of cell types30.”
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- Authors
- Benayoun, B. A., Pollina, E. A., Ucar, D., Mahmoudi, S., Karra, K., Wong, E. D., Devarajan, K., Daugherty, A. C., Kundaje, A. B., Mancini, E., Hitz, B. C., Gupta, R., Rando, T. A., Baker, J. C., Snyder, M. P., Cherry, J. M., & Brunet, A.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brunet, Anne
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-07
- Volume
- 158
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 673-688
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4137894
- OpenAlex
- W1984173288
- Cited by
- 536
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 44 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 51 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 38 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 4.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2015-11-19)
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- The Mouseion at the JAXlibrary (Jackson Laboratory) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (F31AG043232, DP1AG044848, P01AG036695)
- National Cancer Institute (T32CA009302)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P01GM099130, R01GM103787, T32GM007790)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
- Keywords
- H3K4me3, histone trimethylation, chromatin modification, transcription start sites, cell identity, neural progenitor cells, gene expression regulation, RNA polymerase II elongation, cell type-specific genes, machine learning
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Cells, Histones, Humans, Lysine, Methylation, Mice, Inbred C57BL, RNA Polymerase II, Transcription, Genetic, Genomics, Histone Code, Neural Stem Cells
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