Predicting Master Transcription Factors from Pan-Cancer Expression Data
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Project description:Critical developmental “master transcription factors” (MTFs) can be subverted during tumorigenesis to control expression of oncogenic transcriptional programs. Current approaches to identify MTFs rely on chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing data, which is currently unavailable for many cancer types. We developed the CaCTS (Cancer Core Transcription factor Specificity) algorithm to prioritize candidate MTFs using pan-cancer RNA-sequencing data. CaCTS identified candidate MTFs across 34 tumor types and 140 subtypes, including known MTFs. We also made novel predictions, including for cancer types/subtypes for which MTFs are unknown. This included PAX8, SOX17, and MECOM as candidate MTFs in ovarian cancer (OV). In OV cells, these factors are required for viability, lie proximal to super-enhancers, co-occupy regulatory elements globally and co-bind at critical gene loci encoding OV biomarkers. Identification of tumor MTFs, especially for tumor types with limited understanding of transcriptional drivers, paves the way to therapeutic targeting of MTFs in a broad spectrum of cancers.
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Project description:The master transcription factors Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog bind enhancer elements and recruit the Mediator co-activator to activate much of the gene expression program of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). We report here that the ESC master transcription factors and Mediator form “super-enhancers” at most genes known to control the pluripotent state, including those encoding the master transcription factors themselves. These super-enhancers consist of extraordinarily large genomic domains occupied by exceptional amounts of Oct4, Sox2, Nanog, Klf4, Esrrb and Mediator. Super-enhancers stimulate considerably higher transcription than typical enhancers in vivo and in reporter vectors. Reduced levels of Oct4 or Mediator cause preferential loss of expression of super-enhancer-associated genes relative to other genes, suggesting how changes in gene expression programs might be accomplished during development. In other more differentiated cells, super-enhancers containing cell-type-specific master transcription factors are also found at genes that define cell identity. These results implicate super-enhancers in the control of mammalian cell identity and differentiation.
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Project description:The master transcription factors Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog bind enhancer elements and recruit the Mediator co-activator to activate much of the gene expression program of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). We report here that the ESC master transcription factors and Mediator form M-bM-^@M-^\super-enhancersM-bM-^@M-^] at most genes known to control the pluripotent state, including those encoding the master transcription factors themselves. These super-enhancers consist of extraordinarily large genomic domains occupied by exceptional amounts of Oct4, Sox2, Nanog, Klf4, Esrrb and Mediator. Super-enhancers stimulate considerably higher transcription than typical enhancers in vivo and in reporter vectors. Reduced levels of Oct4 or Mediator cause preferential loss of expression of super-enhancer-associated genes relative to other genes, suggesting how changes in gene expression programs might be accomplished during development. In other more differentiated cells, super-enhancers containing cell-type-specific master transcription factors are also found at genes that define cell identity. These results implicate super-enhancers in the control of mammalian cell identity and differentiation. Time-course of gene expression following shRNA knockdown of Oct4 and Med12.
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