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ArticlePloS one2017

Identifying novel transcription factors involved in the inflammatory response by using binding site motif scanning in genomic regions defined by histone acetylation.

Peter S Askovich, Stephen A Ramsey, Alan H Diercks, Kathleen A Kennedy, Theo A Knijnenburg, Alan Aderem

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Peter S AskovichCenter for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6034-6113
Stephen A RamseyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America.
Alan H DiercksCenter for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Kathleen A KennedyCenter for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Theo A KnijnenburgInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Alan AderemCenter for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Center for Infectious Disease Research · USInstitute for Systems Biology · USOregon State University · US

Funding

Systems Biology CoreU19AI100627 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI NOLAN, GARRY P · 2012 to 2021
$49.1M
LPS Signaling in Macrophages: The Roll of TollR01AI032972 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ADEREM, ALAN A · 1992 to 2020
$14.6M
LPS REGULATION OF MACROPHAGE FUNCTIONR01AI025032 · NIAID · SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI ADEREM, ALAN A · 1987 to 2016
$6.7M
Systems analysis of transcriptional interactions underlying foam cell formationK25HL098807 · NHLBI · SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI RAMSEY, STEPHEN A. · 2010 to 2013
$584k
NHLBI NIH HHS K25 HL098807NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI025032NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI032972NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI100627
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The innate immune response to pathogenic challenge is a complex, multi-staged process involving thousands of genes. While numerous transcription factors that act as master regulators of this response have been identified, the temporal complexity of gene expression changes in response to pathogen-associated molecular pattern receptor stimulation strongly suggest that additional layers of regulation remain to be uncovered. The evolved pathogen response program in mammalian innate immune cells is understood to reflect a compromise between the probability of clearing the infection and the extent of tissue damage and inflammatory sequelae it causes. Because of that, a key challenge to delineating the regulators that control the temporal inflammatory response is that an innate immune regulator that may confer a selective advantage in the wild may be dispensable in the lab setting. In order to better understand the complete transcriptional response of primary macrophages to the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS), we designed a method that integrates temporally resolved gene expression and chromatin-accessibility measurements from mouse macrophages. By correlating changes in transcription factor binding site motif enrichment scores, calculated within regions of accessible chromatin, with the average temporal expression profile of a gene cluster, we screened for transcriptional factors that regulate the cluster. We have validated our predictions of LPS-stimulated transcriptional regulators using ChIP-seq data for three transcription factors with experimentally confirmed functions in innate immunity. In addition, we predict a role in the macrophage LPS response for several novel transcription factors that have not previously been implicated in immune responses. This method is applicable to any experimental situation where temporal gene expression and chromatin-accessibility data are available.

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Gene Expression RegulationGenomeImmunity, InnateAcetylationAnimalsFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHistonesInflammationLipopolysaccharidesMacrophagesMiceTranscription FactorsHistonesLipopolysaccharidesTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID28922390
PMCPMC5602638
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