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Chromatin Landscape Governing Murine Epidermal Differentiation

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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
Volume 143, Issue 7, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.12.020

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Chromatin landscape and regulatory networks play crucial roles in lineage specification and differentiation. This study explored the temporal and spatial differentiation axis in murine epidermal cells and revealed the regulatory role of the Dlx/Klf/Grhl network and superenhancers in epidermal differentiation.
Chromatin landscape and regulatory networks are determinants in lineage specification and differentiation. To define the temporospatial differentiation axis in murine epidermal cells in vivo, we generated datasets profiling expression dynamics (RNA sequencing), chromatin accessibility (assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing), architecture (Hi-C), and histone modifications (chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing) in the epidermis. We show that many differentially regulated genes are suppressed during the differentiation process, with superenhancers controlling differentiation-specific epigenomic changes. Our data shows the relevance of the Dlx/Klf/Grhl combinatorial regulatory network in maintaining correct temporospatial gene expression during epidermal differentiation. We determined differential open compartments, topologically associating domain score, and looping in the basal cell and suprabasal cell epidermal fractions, with the evolutionarily conserved epidermal differentiation complex region showing distinct suprabasal cell-specific topologically associating domain and loop formation that coincided with superenhancer sites. Overall, our study provides a global genome-wide resource of chromatin dynamics that define unrecognized regulatory networks and the epigenetic control of Dlx3-bound superenhancer elements during epidermal differentiation.

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