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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
卷 220, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202007152
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- National Institutes of Health [T32 HL105355, DK058185, DK084567, HL142596, HL124392, HL092961, HL133320]
The study showed that higher matrix stiffness significantly increased chromatin accessibility, with genomic loci related to fibroblast phenotype being in close proximity. Motif analysis suggested ZNF416 as a potential mediator of fibroblast stiffness responses, and ChIP-seq analysis confirmed ZNF416's occupancy in profibrotic genes.
Matrix stiffness is a central regulator of fibroblast function. However, the transcriptional mechanisms linking matrix stiffness to changes in fibroblast phenotype are incompletely understood. Here, we evaluated the effect of matrix stiffness on genome-wide chromatin accessibility in freshly isolated lung fibroblasts using ATAC-seq. We found higher matrix stiffness profoundly increased global chromatin accessibility relative to lower matrix stiffness, and these alterations were in close genomic proximity to known profibrotic gene programs. Motif analysis of these regulated genomic loci identified ZNF416 as a putative mediator of fibroblast stiffness responses. Genome occupancy analysis using ChIP-seq confirmed that ZNF416 occupies a broad range of genes implicated in fibroblast activation and tissue fibrosis, with relatively little overlap in genomic occupancy with other mechanoresponsive and profibrotic transcriptional regulators. Using loss- and gain-of-function studies, we demonstrated that ZNF416 plays a critical role in fibroblast proliferation, extracellular matrix synthesis, and contractile function. Together, these observations identify ZNF416 as novel mechano-activated transcriptional regulator of fibroblast biology.
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