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CELL SYSTEMS
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 381-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2018.01.002
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- NHGRI [U01 HG007910]
- NIDA [DP1DA034990]
- NIAID [RO1AI111809]
- NCATS [UL1 TR001453-02]
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Most well-characterized enhancers are deeply conserved. In contrast, genome-wide comparative studies of steady-state systems showed that only a small fraction of active enhancers are conserved. To better understand conservation of enhancer activity, we used a comparative genomics approach that integrates temporal expression and epigenetic profiles in an innate immune system. We found that gene expression programs diverge among mildly induced genes, while being highly conserved for strongly induced genes. The fraction of conserved enhancers varies greatly across gene expression programs, with induced genes and early-response genes, in particular, being regulated by a higher fraction of conserved enhancers. Clustering of conserved accessible DNA sequences within enhancers resulted in over 60 sequence motifs including motifs for known factors, as well as many with unknown function. We further show that the number of instances of these motifs is a strong predictor of the responsiveness of a gene to pathogen detection.
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