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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 206, Issue 8, Pages 1817-1830Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20081678
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- National Institutes of Health [R01Al052400]
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Immunoglobulin class switch recombination is governed by long-range interactions between enhancers and germline transcript promoters to activate transcription and modulate chromatin accessibility to activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). However, mechanisms leading to the differential targeting of AID to switch (S) regions but not to constant (CH) regions remain unclear. We show that S and CH regions are dynamically modified with histone marks that are associated with active and repressed chromatin states, respectively. Chromatin accessibility is superimposable with the activating histone modifications, which extend throughout S regions irrespective of length. High density elongating RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) is detected in S regions, suggesting that the transcription machinery has paused and stalling is abolished by deletion of the S region. We propose that RNAP II enrichment facilitates recruitment of histone modifiers to generate accessibility. Thus, the histone methylation pattern produced by transcription localizes accessible chromatin to S regions, thereby focusing AID attack.
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