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Enhancer looping protein LDB1 regulates hepatocyte gene expression by cooperating with liver transcription factors.


ABSTRACT: Enhancers establish proximity with distant target genes to regulate temporospatial gene expression and specify cell identity. Lim domain binding protein 1 (LDB1) is a conserved and widely expressed protein that functions as an enhancer looping factor. Previous studies in erythroid cells and neuronal cells showed that LDB1 forms protein complexes with different transcription factors to regulate cell-specific gene expression. Here, we show that LDB1 regulates expression of liver genes by occupying enhancer elements and cooperating with hepatic transcription factors HNF4A, FOXA1, TCF7 and GATA4. Using the glucose transporter SLC2A2 gene, encoding GLUT2, as an example, we find that LDB1 regulates gene expression by mediating enhancer-promoter interactions. In vivo, we find that LDB1 deficiency in primary mouse hepatocytes dysregulates metabolic gene expression and changes the enhancer landscape. Conditional deletion of LDB1 in adult mouse liver induces glucose intolerance. However, Ldb1 knockout hepatocytes show improved liver pathology under high-fat diet conditions associated with increased expression of genes related to liver fatty acid metabolic processes. Thus, LDB1 is linked to liver metabolic functions under normal and obesogenic conditions.

SUBMITTER: Liu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9458430 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Enhancer looping protein LDB1 regulates hepatocyte gene expression by cooperating with liver transcription factors.

Liu Guoyou G   Wang Lei L   Wess Jürgen J   Dean Ann A  

Nucleic acids research 20220901 16


Enhancers establish proximity with distant target genes to regulate temporospatial gene expression and specify cell identity. Lim domain binding protein 1 (LDB1) is a conserved and widely expressed protein that functions as an enhancer looping factor. Previous studies in erythroid cells and neuronal cells showed that LDB1 forms protein complexes with different transcription factors to regulate cell-specific gene expression. Here, we show that LDB1 regulates expression of liver genes by occupying  ...[more]

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