Synergistic and antagonistic activities of IRF8 and FOS enhancer pairs during an immune cell fate switch
Klonizakis, A.; Alcoverro-Bertran, M.; Masso, P.; Thomas, J.; de Andres-Aguayo, L.; Wei, X.; Varamogianni-Mamatsi, V.; Nikolaou, C.; Graf, T.
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Cell-fate instructive genes tend to be regulated by large clusters of enhancers. Whether and how individual enhancers within such clusters cooperate in regulating gene expression is poorly understood. We have previously developed a computational method, SEGCOND, that identifies hubs consisting of enhancer clusters and their target genes, termed Putative Transcriptional Condensates (PTCs). Using SEGCOND, we identified PTCs in a CEBPA-induced B-cell to macrophage transdifferentiation system. We found them to be enriched for highly expressed, lineage-restricted genes and to associate with BRD4, a component of transcriptional condensates. Here we performed single and combinatorial deletions of enhancers within two active PTCs after transdifferentiation is induced, harboring IRF8 and FOS. Two enhancers within the IRF8 PTC were found to form a backup mechanism when combined, safeguarding IRF8 expression and transdifferentiation kinetics. Unexpectedly, two individual enhancers within the FOS PTC antagonize each other at Day 1 of transdifferentiation, delaying the conversion of B-cells to macrophages and reducing FOS expression, but cooperate to increase FOS levels in Day 7 induced cells. Our results reveal differentiation stage-specific, complex interactions, between individual enhancers within a cluster.
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