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Enhancer loops appear stable during development and are associated with paused polymerase
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Developmental enhancers initiate transcription and are fundamental to our understanding of developmental networks, evolution and disease. Despite their importance, the properties governing enhancer-promoter interactions and their dynamics during embryogenesis remain unclear. At the β-globin locus, enhancer-promoter interactions appear dynamic and cell-type specific, whereas at the HoxD locus they are stable and ubiquitous, being present in tissues where the target genes are not expressed. The extent to which preformed enhancer-promoter conformations exist at other, more typical, loci and how transcription is eventually triggered is unclear. Here we generated a high-resolution map of enhancer three-dimensional contacts during Drosophila embryogenesis, covering two developmental stages and tissue contexts, at unprecedented resolution. Although local regulatory interactions are common, long-range interactions are highly prevalent within the compact Drosophila genome. Each enhancer contacts multiple enhancers, and promoters with similar expression, suggesting a role in their co-regulation. Notably, most interactions appear unchanged between tissue context and across development, arising before gene activation, and are frequently associated with paused RNA polymerase. Our results indicate that the general topology governing enhancer contacts is conserved from flies to humans and suggest that transcription initiates from preformed enhancer-promoter loops through release of paused polymerase.
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“Such enhancer or repressor loop stability has been described during development where they are associated with paused polymerase28 and in human fibroblasts where TNF-α-responsive enhancers contact their target promoters before TNF-α activation29.”
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“In Drosophila, pronounced changes in enhancer activity during embryonic development seem to occur without prominent changes in their 3D conformation [392, 393].”
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“Finally, multiple lines of recent evidence suggest that many functional enhancers likely do not come into direct contact with their target promoters upon Drosophila development (although some “permissive” enhancer–promoter loops are detectable as discussed above) [392].”
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“Consistently, in Drosophila melanogaster embryos, many developmental enhancers establish spatial contacts with their target promoters prior to the beginning of transcription from these promoters [126].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ghavi-Helm, Y., Klein, F. A., Pakozdi, T., Ciglar, L., Noordermeer, D., Huber, W., & Furlong, E. E. M.
- Affiliations
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Furlong, Eileen E. M.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2014-07-02
- Volume
- 512
- Issue
- 7512
- Pages
- 96-100
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2008227324
- Cited by
- 536
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 23.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2016-07-13)
- Open access
- green
- infoscience.epfl.ch
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Keywords
- enhancer-promoter interactions, 3D genome organization, Drosophila embryogenesis, developmental enhancers, cis-regulatory motifs, transcription initiation, chromatin looping, cis-regulatory networks, cis-regulatory evolution
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Binding Sites, Drosophila melanogaster, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Humans, Promoter Regions, Genetic, DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases, Transcriptional Activation, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Embryonic Development, Genome, Insect, Genetic Loci, Chromosomes, Insect, Transcription Initiation, Genetic
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