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ArticleCell reports2022

Topologically associating domains are disrupted by evolutionary genome rearrangements forming species-specific enhancer connections in mice and humans.

Sarah E Gilbertson, Hannah C Walter, Katherine Gardner, Spencer N Wren, Golnaz Vahedi, Amy S Weinmann

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Article in Cell reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah E GilbertsonDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Hannah C WalterDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Katherine GardnerDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Spencer N WrenDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Golnaz VahediDepartment of Genetics, Institute of Immunology, Epigenetics Institute, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Amy S WeinmannDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. Electronic address: weinmann@uab.edu.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Molecular characterization of the role for T-bet and Bcl-6 in immune cell metabolism and differentiationR01AI061061 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WEINMANN, AMY SUSAN · 2004 to 2025
$7.0M
Critical role of TCF-1 on the epigenetic identity of memory T cellsR01HL145754 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI VAHEDI, GOLNAZ · 2019 to 2023
$2.3M
Molecular characterization of the role for metabolites in immune cell differentiationR56AI061061 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WEINMANN, AMY SUSAN · 2009 to 2021
$672k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL145754NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI061061NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI061061
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Distinguishing between conserved and divergent regulatory mechanisms is essential for translating preclinical research from mice to humans, yet there is a lack of information about how evolutionary genome rearrangements affect the regulation of the immune response, a rapidly evolving system. The current model is topologically associating domains (TADs) are conserved between species, buffering evolutionary rearrangements and conserving long-range interactions within a TAD. However, we find that TADs frequently span evolutionary translocation and inversion breakpoints near genes with species-specific expression in immune cells, creating unique enhancer-promoter interactions exclusive to the mouse or human genomes. This includes TADs encompassing immune-related transcription factors, cytokines, and receptors. For example, we uncover an evolutionary rearrangement that created a shared LPS-inducible regulatory module between OASL and P2RX7 in human macrophages that is absent in mice. Therefore, evolutionary genome rearrangements disrupt TAD boundaries, enabling sequence-conserved enhancer elements from divergent genomic locations between species to create unique regulatory modules.

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ChromatinGenome, HumanAnimalsEnhancer Elements, GeneticEvolution, MolecularGene RearrangementGenomicsHumansMiceChromatinB cellsCCR5CD163CP: ImmunologyCXCL13CXCR4EOMESgenome topologygenomic structural variationIDO1IL23RIL6iNOSIRF4JUNmacrophagesNAMPTNOS2P2RX7T cellsTLR9

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