Novel Chromatin Insulating Activities Uncovered upon Eliminating KnownInsulators in vivo
Ortabozkoyun, H.; Huang, P.-Y.; Cho, H.; Mazzoni, E.; Tsirigos, A.; Reinberg, D.
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Partitioning of repressive from actively transcribed chromatin in mammalian cells fosters cell-type specific gene expression patterns. While this partitioning is reconstructed during differentiation, the chromatin occupancy of the key insulator, CTCF, is unchanged at the developmentally important Hox clusters. Thus, dynamic changes in chromatin boundaries must entail other activities. Given its requirement for chromatin loop formation, we examined cohesin-based chromatin occupancy without known insulators, CTCF and MAZ, and identified a family of zinc finger proteins (ZNFs), some of which exhibit tissue-specific expression. Two such ZNFs foster chromatin boundaries at the Hox clusters that are distinct from each other and from MAZ. PATZ1 was critical to the thoracolumbar boundary in differentiating motor neurons and mouse skeleton, while ZNF263 contributed to cervicothoracic boundaries. We propose that these insulating activities act with cohesin, alone or combinatorially, with or without CTCF, to implement precise positional identity and cell fate during development.
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