Genome-wide identification of silencers in human cells
Zhu, X.; Wang, C.; Kong, D.; Luo, J.; Deng, B.; Gu, Y.; Kong, S.; Huang, L.; Liu, Y.; Zhang, Y.
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Transcriptional regulation is a complex process that is controlled by a variety of factors, including enhancers and silencers. Silencers, also known as repressor elements, play a crucial role in the fine-tuning of gene expression by inhibiting or suppressing transcription in the human genome. Although significant progresses have been made, genome-wide silencer research is still in its early stages. Here, we used a genome-wide method called massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) to identify silencers in three human cell lines: K562, LNCap, and HEK293T. We identified 739,434, 643,484, and 491,952 silencer regions in these cell lines, respectively. We found that most of the silencers we identified had inhibitory activity and significantly enriched inhibitory motifs. These results confirm that silencers are ubiquitous in the human genome and play an important role in regulating gene expression. Therefore, our study provides a general strategy for genome-wide functional identification of silencer elements. This information could be used to better understand the mechanisms of gene regulation and to develop new therapeutic strategies for diseases that are caused by dysregulation of gene expression.
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