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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 27-U42Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng.730
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- The University of Cambridge
- Cancer Research UK
- Hutchison Whampoa Limited
- Commonwealth fellowship
- Breast Cancer Campaign
- ERC
- Cancer Research UK [15602] Funding Source: researchfish
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Estrogen receptor-alpha (ER) is the key feature of most breast cancers and binding of ER to the genome correlates with expression of the Forkhead protein FOXA1 (also called HNF3 alpha). Here we show that FOXA1 is a key determinant that can influence differential interactions between ER and chromatin. Almost all ER-chromatin interactions and gene expression changes depended on the presence of FOXA1 and FOXA1 influenced genome-wide chromatin accessibility. Furthermore, we found that CTCF was an upstream negative regulator of FOXA1-chromatin interactions. In estrogen-responsive breast cancer cells, the dependency on FOXA1 for tamoxifen-ER activity was absolute; in tamoxifen-resistant cells, ER binding was independent of ligand but depended on FOXA1. Expression of FOXA1 in non-breast cancer cells can alter ER binding and function. As such, FOXA1 is a major determinant of estrogen-ER activity and endocrine response in breast cancer cells.
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