Detecting TAD-like domains from RNA-associated interactions.

Yu Wei Zhang, Lingxi Chen, Shuai Cheng Li

Nucleic acids research 2022 Aug 26

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Topologically associated domains (TADs) are crucial chromatin structural units. Evidence has illustrated that RNA-chromatin and RNA-RNA spatial interactions, so-called RNA-associated interactions (RAIs), may be associated with TAD-like domains (TLDs). To decode hierarchical TLDs from RAIs, we proposed SuperTLD, a domain detection algorithm incorporating imputation. We applied SuperTLD on four RAI data sets and compared TLDs with the TADs identified from the corresponding Hi-C datasets. The TLDs and TADs share a moderate similarity of hierarchies ≥ 0.5312 and the finest structures ≥ 0.8295. Comparison between boundaries and domains further demonstrated the novelty of TLDs. Enrichment analysis of epigenetic characteristics illustrated that the novel TLDs exhibit an enriched CTCF by 0.6245 fold change and H3 histone marks enriched within domains. GO analysis on the TLD novel boundaries exhibited enriched diverse terms, revealing TLDs' formation mechanism related closely to gene regulation. © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.

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Yu Wei Zhang, Lingxi Chen, Shuai Cheng Li. Detecting TAD-like domains from RNA-associated interactions. Nucleic acids research. 2022 Aug 26;50(15):e88