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Outward-oriented sites within clustered CTCF boundaries are key for intra-TAD chromatin interactions and gene regulation.


ABSTRACT: CTCF plays an important role in 3D genome organization by adjusting the strength of chromatin insulation at TAD boundaries, where clustered CBS (CTCF-binding site) elements are often arranged in a tandem array with a complex divergent or convergent orientation. Here, using Pcdh and HOXD loci as a paradigm, we look into the clustered CTCF TAD boundaries and find that, counterintuitively, outward-oriented CBS elements are crucial for inward enhancer-promoter interactions as well as for gene regulation. Specifically, by combinatorial deletions of a series of putative enhancer elements in mice in vivo or CBS elements in cultured cells in vitro, in conjunction with chromosome conformation capture and RNA-seq analyses, we show that deletions of outward-oriented CBS elements weaken the strength of long-distance intra-TAD promoter-enhancer interactions and enhancer activation of target genes. Our data highlight the crucial role of outward-oriented CBS elements within the clustered CTCF TAD boundaries in developmental gene regulation and have interesting implications on the organization principles of clustered CTCF sites within TAD boundaries.

SUBMITTER: Ge X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10703910 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Outward-oriented sites within clustered CTCF boundaries are key for intra-TAD chromatin interactions and gene regulation.

Ge Xiao X   Huang Haiyan H   Han Keqi K   Xu Wangjie W   Wang Zhaoxia Z   Wu Qiang Q  

Nature communications 20231207 1


CTCF plays an important role in 3D genome organization by adjusting the strength of chromatin insulation at TAD boundaries, where clustered CBS (CTCF-binding site) elements are often arranged in a tandem array with a complex divergent or convergent orientation. Here, using Pcdh and HOXD loci as a paradigm, we look into the clustered CTCF TAD boundaries and find that, counterintuitively, outward-oriented CBS elements are crucial for inward enhancer-promoter interactions as well as for gene regula  ...[more]

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