論文

2021年7月13日

Imaging and single cell sequencing analyses of super-enhancer activation mediated by NF-κ B in B cells

  • Johannes Nicolaus Wibisana
  • ,
  • Takehiko Inaba
  • ,
  • Hisaaki Shinohara
  • ,
  • Noriko Yumoto
  • ,
  • Tetsutaro Hayashi
  • ,
  • Mana Umeda
  • ,
  • Masashi Ebisawa
  • ,
  • Itoshi Nikaido
  • ,
  • Yasushi Sako
  • ,
  • Mariko Okada

DOI
10.1101/2021.07.13.452147
出版者・発行元
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The NF-κB signaling pathway, which plays an important role in cell fate determination in various cells, has been found to be involved in the activation of long clusters of enhancers known as super-enhancers (SEs) for transcriptional regulation. However, the contribution of NF-κB to SEs has not yet been validated under microscopic observation. Using fluorescence imaging, single-cell transcriptome, and chromatin accessibility analyses, we show that NF-κB subunit RelA nuclear foci formation and single-cell gene expression demonstrate SE-like properties in anti-IgM-stimulated B cells. This contributed to bimodal and enhanced cell-to-cell variability in transcriptional response. Furthermore, we found that the predicted cis-regulatory interacting genomic regions from chromatin co-accessibility analysis were associated with the observed transcriptional heterogeneity. These findings suggest that NF-κB-mediated SE formation is important for the expression of NF-κB target genes and the amplification of transcriptional heterogeneity in response to environmental stimuli in B cells.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.13.452147
URL
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1101/2021.07.13.452147
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1101/2021.07.13.452147

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