Sequential and coordinated control of human plasma cell differentiation by IRF4 and BLIMP1 utilizing a discriminating ISRE/EICE motif lexicon
Lau, L. C.; Lal, S.; Fan, J.; Pease, N.; Singh, H.
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The transcription factors IRF4 and BLIMP1 (PRDM1) promote plasma cell (PC) differentiation by repressing B cell identity genes while inducing the unfolded protein response, ER/Golgi biogenesis, and immunoglobulin secretion. How IRF4 and BLIMP1 partition and coordinate their genomic activities during plasma cell differentiation remains unresolved. Using naive human B cells and a stepwise in vitro differentiation system, we performed CRISPR/Cas9 perturbations of IRF4 or PRDM1 in plasma cell precursors followed by single-cell RNA sequencing. Despite their mutually reinforced expression and shared recognition of related IRF-family motifs (ISREs and EICEs), loss of IRF4, but not of BLIMP1, yielded a stunted intermediate with incomplete silencing of B cell identity genes and defective induction of the secretory program. Multiome profiling, base-pair-resolution motif modeling, CUT&RUN, and DNA-binding assays identified non-conserved nucleotides within ISRE/EICE motifs that discriminate IRF4 from BLIMP1 binding. These findings reveal a motif-lexicon-dependent IRF4-BLIMP1 interplay, in which IRF4 first acts independently and then in concert with BLIMP1. This regulatory logic may also underlie programming of additional lymphocyte effector states.
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