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- Title
An autoimmune pleiotropic SNP modulates IRF5 alternative promoter usage through ZBTB3-mediated chromatin looping.
- Authors
Wang, Zhao; Liang, Qian; Qian, Xinyi; Hu, Bolang; Zheng, Zhanye; Wang, Jianhua; Hu, Yuelin; Bao, Zhengkai; Zhao, Ke; Zhou, Yao; Feng, Xiangling; Yi, Xianfu; Li, Jin; Shi, Jiandang; Liu, Zhe; Hao, Jihui; Chen, Kexin; Yu, Ying; Sham, Pak Chung; Lu, Wange
- Abstract
Genetic sharing is extensively observed for autoimmune diseases, but the causal variants and their underlying molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown. Through systematic investigation of autoimmune disease pleiotropic loci, we found most of these shared genetic effects are transmitted from regulatory code. We used an evidence-based strategy to functionally prioritize causal pleiotropic variants and identify their target genes. A top-ranked pleiotropic variant, rs4728142, yielded many lines of evidence as being causal. Mechanistically, the rs4728142-containing region interacts with the IRF5 alternative promoter in an allele-specific manner and orchestrates its upstream enhancer to regulate IRF5 alternative promoter usage through chromatin looping. A putative structural regulator, ZBTB3, mediates the allele-specific loop to promote IRF5-short transcript expression at the rs4728142 risk allele, resulting in IRF5 overactivation and M1 macrophage polarization. Together, our findings establish a causal mechanism between the regulatory variant and fine-scale molecular phenotype underlying the dysfunction of pleiotropic genes in human autoimmunity. Here the authors used an evidence-based strategy to prioritize causal pleiotropic variants of autoimmune diseases, and revealed that rs4728142 modulates aberrant IRF5 alternative promoter usage by ZBTB3-mediated chromatin looping.
- Subjects
AUTOIMMUNE diseases; HUMAN genes; AUTOIMMUNITY; PHENOTYPES; CHROMATIN; ALLELES
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-36897-z