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CTCF establishes discrete functional chromatin domains at the Hox clusters during differentiation

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Narendra, Varun, Rocha, Pedro P., An, Disi, Raviram, Ramya, Skok, Jane A., Mazzoni, Esteban O., Reinberg, Danny·2015·Science

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Keeping repressed genes repressed: Hox genes confer positional identity to cells and tissues. Maintaining precise spatial patterns of Hox gene expression is vital during metazoan development. The transcriptional repressor CTCF is involved in the regulation of chromatin architecture. Narendra et al. show that a CTCF protein binding site insulates regions of active and repressed Hox gene expression from each other. This protects heterochromatin containing repressed Hox genes from the encroaching spread of active chromatin. The CTCF protein appears to organize the active and repressed chromatin regions into distinct architectural domains. Science , this issue p. 1017

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  • Spatial organization of chromatin, including long-range DNA interactions, plays a key role in controlling gene expression and maintaining cellular identity.

    “The spatial organization of chromatin, including a variety of long-range DNA interactions, plays a key role in controlling gene expression and maintaining cellular identity (Gorkin et al., 2014; Kundu et al., 2017; Narendra et al., 2015; Schoenfelder et al., 2015; Zirkel et al., 2018).”

    From Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging (2023) · cites this paper as Narendra et al., 2015

  • Genetic perturbation of CTCF binding has been shown to result in misregulation of gene expression in various cell lines and cancer.

    “While genetic perturbation of CTCF binding has been shown to result in misregulation of gene expression in various cell lines and cancer9–11,28”
  • Chromatin domains span >90% of the genome and are thought to create insulated neighborhoods demarcating the search space of specific long-range interactions between enhancers and their target genes.

    “Such chromatin domains span >90% of the genome and are thought to create insulated neighborhoods demarcating the search space of specific long-range interactions between enhancers and their target genes (Dowen et al., 2014; Narendra et al., 2015; Symmons et al., 2014).”

    From Disease-Associated Short Tandem Repeats Co-localize with Chromatin Domain Boundaries (2018) · cites this paper as Narendra et al., 2015

  • Dynamic loop extrusion models can explain recent perturbation experiments where CTCF binding sites have been added or deleted and also explain the loss of either CTCF or cohesin.

    “Notably, a key advantage of dynamic loop extrusion models is that they can explain recent perturbation experiments where CTCF binding sites have been added or deleted9,49-51 and also explain the loss of either CTCF or cohesin.10-15”
  • CTCF sites located within a Hox gene cluster play a critical role in proper expression of Hox genes; some of these critical CTCF sites form insulated neighborhood anchors in ES cells.

    “Positional information in the developing embryo depends on the precise expression of Homeobox (Hox) genes, and CTCF sites located within a Hox gene cluster play a critical role in proper expression of Hox genes (Narendra et al., 2015); some of these critical CTCF sites form insulated neighborhood anchors in ES cells.”

    From Insulated Neighborhoods: Structural and Functional Units of Mammalian Gene Control (2016) · cites this paper as Narendra et al., 2015

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Authors
Narendra, V., Rocha, P. P., An, D., Raviram, R., Skok, J. A., Mazzoni, E. O., & Reinberg, D.
Affiliations
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • NYU Langone Health (US)
  • New York University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Mazzoni, Esteban O.
  • Reinberg, Danny
Venue
Science
Published
2015-02-27
Volume
347
Issue
6225
Pages
1017-1021
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W1975542854
Cited by
535
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 54 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 60 · 2016: 56 · 2015: 34
FWCI
29.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
NIH (R37-37120, GM-64844, T32 GM007238, R01HD079682, GM086852, GM112192)
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 › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Keywords
CTCF, Hox gene clusters, chromatin insulators, Polycomb group proteins, trithorax group, epigenetic memory, positional identity, embryonic stem cell differentiation, facultative heterochromatin, transcriptional activation
MeSH terms
CCCTC-Binding Factor, Animals, Cell Differentiation, Chromatin, Dogs, Gene Expression Regulation, Genes, Homeobox, Multigene Family, Humans, Motor Neurons, Neck, Repressor Proteins, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Mice, Rats, Embryonic Stem Cells

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