Widespread contribution of transposable elements to the innovation of gene regulatory networks [human ENCODE]

ABSTRACT: Transposable elements (TE) have been shown to contrain functional transcription factor (TF) binding sites for long, but the extent to which TEs contribute TF binding sites is not well know. Here, we comprehensively mapped binding sites for 26 pairs of orthologous TFs, in two pairs of human and mouse cell lines (i.e., leukemia, and lymphoblast), along with epigenomic profiles representing DNA methylation and six histone modifications. We found that on average, 20% of TF binding sites were embedded in TEs. We further identified 710 TF-TE relationships in which certain TE subfamilies enriched for TF binidng sites. TE-derived TF binding peaks were also strongly associated with decreased DNA methylation and increased enhancer-associated histone marks. Most of the TE-derived TF binding sites wer

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Daofeng Li 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-56774 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress