Project description:We report the application of circular chromatin conformation capture (4C) sequencing technology for master transcription factor (KLF5 and ELF3) in human esophageal adenocarcinoma cancer cell lines (ESO26) . By baiting the promoters of KLF5 and ELF3, we esatblished the interaction with unknown enhnacer marks.
Project description:We profiled fresh-frozen esophageal tumor and normal samples and cell lines with chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-Seq). Mathematically modeling was performed to establish (super)-enhancers landscapes and inter-connected transcriptional circuitry formed by master TFs. Coregulation and cooperation between master TFs was investigated by ChIP-Seq, RNASeq, 4C-Seq and luciferase assay. Biological functions of candidate factors were evaluated by measuring cell proliferation, colony formation, cell apoptosis and xenograft growth.
Project description:Master transcription factors form interconnected circuitry and orchestrate transcriptional networks in esophageal adenocarcinoma [ChIP-Seq]
Project description:We mapped the transcriptional regulatory circuitry for six master regulators in human hepatocytes using chromatin immunoprecipitation and high-resolution promoter microarrays. The results show that these regulators form a highly interconnected core circuitry, and reveal the local regulatory network motifs created by regulator-gene interactions. Auto-regulation was a prominent theme among these regulators. We found that hepatocyte master regulators tend to bind promoter regions combinatorially and that the number of transcription factors bound to a promoter corresponds with observed gene expression. Our studies reveal portions of the core circuitry of human hepatocytes.
Project description:Enhancer looping governs gene regulatory circuitry but is challenging to detect. Here we present Tri-4C, an ultrafine mapping method for distal chromatin contacts using triple restriction enzyme (RE) digestion. Tri-4C identifies enhancer loops that are undetectable by current single RE- based methods and reveals quantitative loop strengths in enhancer interaction networks underlying dynamic gene control. This multi-RE approach may be applied to general 3C-derived methods for accurate detection of enhancer loops.
Project description:Enhancer looping governs gene regulatory circuitry but is challenging to detect. Here we present Tri-4C, an ultrafine mapping method for distal chromatin contacts using triple restriction enzyme (RE) digestion. Tri-4C identifies enhancer loops that are undetectable by current single RE- based methods and reveals quantitative loop strengths in enhancer interaction networks underlying dynamic gene control. This multi-RE approach may be applied to general 3C-derived methods for accurate detection of enhancer loops.