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Project description:The function of enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) in transcriptional regulation remains obscure. By analyzing the genome-wide nascent transcript profiles in breast cancer cells, we identify a special group of eRNAs that are essential for estrogen-induced transcriptional repression. Using eRNAs of TM4SF1 and EFEMP1 as the paradigms, we find that these RNA molecules not only stabilize promoter-enhancer interactions but also recruit liganded estrogen receptor α (ERα) to particular enhancer regions, facilitate the formation of a functional transcriptional complex, and cause gene silencing. Interestingly, ERα is shown to directly bind with eRNAs by its DNA-binding domain. These eRNAs help with the formation of a specific ERα-centered transcriptional complex and promote the association of the histone demethylase KDM2A, which dismisses RNA polymerase II from designated enhancers and suppresses the transcription of target genes. Our work demonstrates a complete mechanism underlying the action of eRNAs in modulating and refining the locus-specific transcriptional program.
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Project description:Enhancer RNAs mediate estrogen-induced decommissioning of selective enhancers by recruiting ER and its cofactor
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Project description:Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) signaling mainly occupies on distal enhancers within genome and plays an essential role in ERα-positive breast cancer. ERα usually requires co-factors to regulate the enhancer activity. By analysis of genome-wide nascent transcript profiling in breast cancer cells, we identified a special group of eRNAs that are functionally important for estrogen-induced transcriptional repression. In addition to stabilizing promoter-enhancer looping structure, these eRNAs recruit ERα to particular enhancers of target genes, facilitate the hierarchical formation of a functional transcriptional complex, and cause gene silencing. Interestingly, we found that ERα directly binds to eRNAs and its DNA-binding domain mediates the interaction with RNA molecules. Our ChIP-seq data in MCF-7 cells indicating that ERαwas not able to bind to E2-activated enhancers, which is consistent with the DNA-binding function reported before; moreover the DBD-truncated ERα was not able to bind to E2-repressed enhancers as well, which further supports our hypothesis that eRNA from E2-repressed enhancers help to recruit ERα to specific enhancers through the interaction with DBD domain. Substitution of ERα-DDBD showed a global effect on both induction and repression of ERα target genes as examined by RNA-seq. Further, these eRNAs help with the formation of a specific ERα-centered transcriptional complex and promote the association of the histone demethylase KDM2A, which dismisses RNA polymerase II from designated enhancers and suppresses transcription of target genes. Our work demonstrated that eRNAs, as a distinctive class of cis-acting molecules besides chromatin regulatory elements, play an important role in modulating and refining locus-specific transcriptional program.
2020-06-23 | GSE135340 | GEO
Project description:Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) signaling mainly occupies on distal enhancers within genome and plays an essential role in ERα-positive breast cancer. ERα usually requires co-factors to regulate the enhancer activity. By analysis of genome-wide nascent transcript profiling in breast cancer cells, we identified a special group of eRNAs that are functionally important for estrogen-induced transcriptional repression. In addition to stabilizing promoter-enhancer looping structure, these eRNAs recruit ERα to particular enhancers of target genes, facilitate the hierarchical formation of a functional transcriptional complex, and cause gene silencing. Interestingly, we found that ERα directly binds to eRNAs and its DNA-binding domain mediates the interaction with RNA molecules. Our ChIP-seq data in MCF-7 cells indicating that ERαwas not able to bind to E2-activated enhancers, which is consistent with the DNA-binding function reported before; moreover the DBD-truncated ERα was not able to bind to E2-repressed enhancers as well, which further supports our hypothesis that eRNA from E2-repressed enhancers help to recruit ERα to specific enhancers through the interaction with DBD domain. Substitution of ERα-DDBD showed a global effect on both induction and repression of ERα target genes as examined by RNA-seq. Further, these eRNAs help with the formation of a specific ERα-centered transcriptional complex and promote the association of the histone demethylase KDM2A, which dismisses RNA polymerase II from designated enhancers and suppresses transcription of target genes. Our work demonstrated that eRNAs, as a distinctive class of cis-acting molecules besides chromatin regulatory elements, play an important role in modulating and refining locus-specific transcriptional program.
2020-06-23 | GSE135339 | GEO
Project description:Enhancer RNA mediate estrogen-induced transcriptional repression by recruiting ERa and its cofactor to selective enhancers [RNA-Seq]
| PRJNA558468 | ENA
Project description:Enhancer RNA mediate estrogen-induced transcriptional repression by recruiting ERa and its cofactor to selective enhancers [ChIP-Seq]
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Project description:Enhancers are critical genomic elements that define cellular and functional identity through the spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression. Recent studies suggest that key genes regulating cell type-specific functions reside in enhancer-dense genomic regions (i.e., super enhancers, stretch enhancers). Here we report that enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) identified by global nuclear run-on sequencing are extensively transcribed within super enhancers and are dynamically regulated in response to cellular signaling. Using Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling in macrophages as a model system, we find that transcription of super enhancer-associated eRNAs is dynamically induced at most of the key genes driving innate immunity and inflammation. Unexpectedly, genes repressed by TLR4 signaling are also associated with super enhancer domains and accompanied by massive repression of eRNA transcription. Furthermore, we find each super enhancer acts as a single regulatory unit within which eRNA and genic transcripts are coordinately regulated. The key regulatory activity of these domains is further supported by the finding that super enhancer-associated transcription factor binding is twice as likely to be conserved between human and mouse than typical enhancer sites. Our study suggests that transcriptional activities at super enhancers are critical components to understand the dynamic gene regulatory network.
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Project description:Transcription factors and chromatin modifiers are important in the programming and reprogramming of cellular states during development. Transcription factors bind to enhancer elements and recruit coactivators and chromatin-modifying enzymes to facilitate transcription initiation. During differentiation a subset of these enhancers must be silenced, but the mechanisms underlying enhancer silencing are poorly understood. Here we show that the histone demethylase lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1; ref. 5), which demethylates histone H3 on Lys?4 or Lys?9 (H3K4/K9), is essential in decommissioning enhancers during the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs). LSD1 occupies enhancers of active genes that are critical for control of the state of ESCs. However, LSD1 is not essential for the maintenance of ESC identity. Instead, ESCs lacking LSD1 activity fail to differentiate fully, and ESC-specific enhancers fail to undergo the histone demethylation events associated with differentiation. At active enhancers, LSD1 is a component of the NuRD (nucleosome remodelling and histone deacetylase) complex, which contains additional subunits that are necessary for ESC differentiation. We propose that the LSD1-NuRD complex decommissions enhancers of the pluripotency program during differentiation, which is essential for the complete shutdown of the ESC gene expression program and the transition to new cell states.
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Project description:Genome-wide RNA sequencing has shown that only a small fraction of the human genome is transcribed into protein-coding mRNAs. While once thought to be "junk" DNA, recent findings indicate that the rest of the genome encodes many types of non-coding RNA molecules with a myriad of functions still being determined. Among the non-coding RNAs, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) and enhancer RNAs (eRNA) are found to be most copious. While their exact biological functions and mechanisms of action are currently unknown, technologies such as next-generation RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and global nuclear run-on sequencing (GRO-seq) have begun deciphering their expression patterns and biological significance. In addition to their identification, it has been shown that the expression of long non-coding RNAs and enhancer RNAs can vary due to spatial, temporal, developmental, or hormonal variations. In this review, we explore newly reported information on estrogen-regulated eRNAs and lncRNAs and their associated biological functions to help outline their markedly prominent roles in estrogen-dependent signaling.
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Project description:Little is known regarding how steroid hormone exposures impact the epigenetic landscape in a living organism. Here, we took a global approach to understanding how exposure to the estrogenic chemical, diethylstilbestrol (DES), affects the neonatal mouse uterine epigenome. Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing data demonstrated that ?80% of DES-altered genes had higher H3K4me1/H3K27ac signal in close proximity. Active enhancers, of which ?3% were super-enhancers, had a high density of estrogen receptor alpha (ER?) binding sites and were correlated with alterations in nearby gene expression. Conditional uterine deletion of ER?, but not the pioneer transcription factors FOXA2 or FOXO1, prevented the majority of DES-mediated changes in gene expression and H3K27ac signal at target enhancers. An ER? dependent super-enhancer was located at the Padi gene locus and a topological connection to the Padi1 TSS was documented using 3C-PCR. Chromosome looping at this site was independent of ER? and DES exposure, indicating that the interaction is established prior to ligand signaling. However, enrichment of H3K27ac and transcriptional activation at this locus was both DES and ER?-dependent. These data suggest that DES alters uterine development and consequently adult reproductive function by modifying the enhancer landscape at ER? binding sites near estrogen-regulated genes.
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