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CELL REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 1443-1455Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.04.042
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- Villum Foundation
- Danish Independent Research Council \ Natural Sciences
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF82]
- Lundbeck Foundation [R118-2012-11639] Funding Source: researchfish
- Villum Fonden [00007292] Funding Source: researchfish
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It is becoming increasingly clear that transcription factors operate in complex networks through thousands of genomic binding sites, many of which bind several transcription factors. However, the extent and mechanisms of crosstalk between transcription factors at these hotspots remain unclear. Using a combination of advanced proteomics and genomics approaches, we identify similar to 12,000 transcription factor hotspots (similar to 400 bp) in the early phase of adipogenesis, and we find evidence of both simultaneous and sequential binding of transcription factors at these regions. We demonstrate that hotspots are highly enriched in large super-enhancer regions (several kilobases), which drive the early adipogenic reprogramming of gene expression. Our results indicate that cooperativity between transcription factors at the level of hotspots as well as super-enhancers is very important for enhancer activity and transcriptional reprogramming. Thus, hotspots and superenhancers constitute important regulatory hubs that serve to integrate external stimuli on chromatin.
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