Temporal autoregulation during human PU.1 locus SubTAD formation.

Epigenetic control of gene expression occurs within discrete spatial chromosomal units called topologically associating domains (TADs), but the exact spatial requirements of most genes are unknown; this is of particular interest for genes involved in cancer. We therefore applied high-resolution chromosomal conformation capture sequencing to map the three-dimensional (3D) organization of the human locus encoding the key myeloid transcription factor PU.1 in healthy monocytes and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. We identified a dynamic ∼75-kb unit (SubTAD) as the genomic region in which spatial interactions between PU.1 gene regulatory elements occur during myeloid differentiation and are interrupted in AML. Within this SubTAD, proper initiation of the spatial chromosomal interactions requires PU.1 autoregulation and recruitment of the chromatin-adaptor protein LDB1 (LIM domain-binding protein 1). However, once these spatial interactions have occurred, LDB1 stabilizes them independently of PU.1 autoregulation. Thus, our data support that PU.1 autoregulates its expression in a "hit-and-run" manner by initiating stable chromosomal loops that result in a transcriptionally active chromatin architecture. © 2018 by The American Society of Hematology.

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Daniel Schuetzmann, Carolin Walter, Boet van Riel, Sabrina Kruse, Thorsten König, Tabea Erdmann, Alexander Tönges, Eric Bindels, Andre Weilemann, Claudia Gebhard, Klaus Wethmar, Chiara Perrod, Julia Minderjahn, Michael Rehli, Ruud Delwel, Georg Lenz, Stefan Gröschel, Martin Dugas, Frank Rosenbauer. Temporal autoregulation during human PU.1 locus SubTAD formation. Blood. 2018 Dec 20;132(25):2643-2655

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