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ArticleNature communications2021

Temporal inhibition of chromatin looping and enhancer accessibility during neuronal remodeling.

Dahong Chen, Catherine E McManus, Behram Radmanesh, Leah H Matzat, Elissa P Lei

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Mechanisms of Interaction between Enhancers and Promoters in ThreeInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dahong ChenNuclear Organization and Gene Expression Section, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Catherine E McManusNuclear Organization and Gene Expression Section, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9943-712X
Behram RadmaneshLaboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Leah H MatzatNuclear Organization and Gene Expression Section, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Elissa P LeiNuclear Organization and Gene Expression Section, Bethesda, MD, USA. leielissa@niddk.nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0003-4403-6788
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Chromatin Insulator Function and Nuclear OrganizationZIADK015602 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI LEI, ELISSA · 2009 to 2025
$24.7M
Chromatin insulator-mediated epigenetic regulation of neuronal remodeling during development.R00HD097308 · NICHD · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI Dahong Chen · 2024 to 2026
$737k
NICHD NIH HHS R00 HD097308
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During development, looping of an enhancer to a promoter is frequently observed in conjunction with temporal and tissue-specific transcriptional activation. The chromatin insulator-associated protein Alan Shepard (Shep) promotes Drosophila post-mitotic neuronal remodeling by repressing transcription of master developmental regulators, such as brain tumor (brat), specifically in maturing neurons. Since insulator proteins can promote looping, we hypothesized that Shep antagonizes brat promoter interaction with an as yet unidentified enhancer. Using chromatin conformation capture and reporter assays, we identified two enhancer regions that increase in looping frequency with the brat promoter specifically in pupal brains after Shep depletion. The brat promoters and enhancers function independently of Shep, ruling out direct repression of these elements. Moreover, ATAC-seq in isolated neurons demonstrates that Shep restricts chromatin accessibility of a key brat enhancer as well as other enhancers genome-wide in remodeling pupal but not larval neurons. These enhancers are enriched for chromatin targets of Shep and are located at Shep-inhibited genes, suggesting direct Shep inhibition of enhancer accessibility and gene expression during neuronal remodeling. Our results provide evidence for temporal regulation of chromatin looping and enhancer accessibility during neuronal maturation.

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AnimalsChromatinDNA-Binding ProteinsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsEnhancer Elements, GeneticNeuronal PlasticityPromoter Regions, GeneticRNA-Binding Proteinsbrat protein, DrosophilaChromatinDNA-Binding ProteinsDrosophila ProteinsRNA-Binding ProteinsShep protein, Drosophila

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PMID34737269
PMCPMC8568962
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