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- Title
Extensive chromatin remodelling and establishment of transcription factor 'hotspots' during early adipogenesis.
- Authors
Siersbæk, Rasmus; Nielsen, Ronni; John, Sam; Sung, Myong-Hee; Baek, Songjoon; Loft, Anne; Hager, Gordon L; Mandrup, Susanne
- Abstract
Adipogenesis is tightly controlled by a complex network of transcription factors acting at different stages of differentiation. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) family members are key regulators of this process. We have employed DNase I hypersensitive site analysis to investigate the genome-wide changes in chromatin structure that accompany the binding of adipogenic transcription factors. These analyses revealed a dramatic and dynamic modulation of the chromatin landscape during the first hours of adipocyte differentiation that coincides with cooperative binding of multiple early transcription factors (including glucocorticoid receptor, retinoid X receptor, Stat5a, C/EBPβ and -δ) to transcription factor 'hotspots'. Our results demonstrate that C/EBPβ marks a large number of these transcription factor 'hotspots' before induction of differentiation and chromatin remodelling and is required for their establishment. Furthermore, a subset of early remodelled C/EBP-binding sites persists throughout differentiation and is later occupied by PPARγ, indicating that early C/EBP family members, in addition to their well-established role in activation of PPARγ transcription, may act as pioneering factors for PPARγ binding.
- Publication
The EMBO journal, 2011, Vol 30, Issue 8, p1459
- ISSN
1460-2075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/emboj.2011.65