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Determinants of transcription factor regulatory range

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Chen, Chen-Hao, Zheng, Rongbin, Tokheim, Collin, Dong, Xin, Fan, Jingyu, Wan, Changxin, Tang, Qin, Brown, Myles +3 more·2020·Nature Communications

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Characterization of the genomic distances over which transcription factor (TF) binding influences gene expression is important for inferring target genes from TF chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) data. Here we systematically examine the relationship between thousands of TF and histone modification ChIP-seq data sets with thousands of gene expression profiles. We develop a model for integrating these data, which reveals two classes of TFs with distinct ranges of regulatory influence, chromatin-binding preferences, and auto-regulatory properties. We find that the regulatory range of the same TF bound within different topologically associating domains (TADs) depend on intrinsic TAD properties such as local gene density and G/C content, but also on the TAD chromatin states. Our results suggest that considering TF type, binding distance to gene locus, as well as chromatin context is important in identifying implicated TFs from GWAS SNPs.

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  • Chen et al. previously systematically integrated thousands of transcription factor binding and histone modification profiles assayed by ChIP-seq with thousands of gene expression profiles to identify two classes of transcription factors with distinct ranges of regulatory influence.

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Authors
Chen, C.-H., Zheng, R., Tokheim, C., Dong, X., Fan, J., Wan, C., Tang, Q., Brown, M., Liu, J. S., Meyer, C. A., & Liu, X. S.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Tongji University (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Meyer, Clifford A.
  • Liu, X. Shirley
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2020-05-18
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
2472-2472
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3024498749
Cited by
85
References
98
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1
FWCI
3.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (U24 HG009446)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Keywords
topologically associating domains, chromatin state, histone modifications, gene expression, autoregulation, GWAS SNPs, gene density, GC content
MeSH terms
Acetylation, Animals, Cell Line, Chromatin, Gene Expression Regulation, Histones, Lysine, Models, Genetic, Protein Binding, Transcription Factors, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Transcription Initiation Site, Quantitative Trait Loci, Mice, Genome-Wide Association Study

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