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TAD border deletion at the Kit locus causes tissue-specific ectopic activation of a neighboring gene.
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- A 14-bp motif in the KIT active promoter region is critical for melanin accumulation in yaks, mice, and humans.BMC biology · 2025Article
- 3D Genome Engineering: Current Advances and Therapeutic Opportunities in Human Diseases.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
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- Structural variants in the Epb41l4a locus: TAD disruption and Nrep gene misregulation as hypothetical drivers of neurodevelopmental outcomes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Function and Evolution of the Loop Extrusion Machinery in Animals.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Topologically associated domains (TADs) restrict promoter-enhancer interactions, thereby maintaining the spatiotemporal pattern of gene activity. However, rearrangements of the TADs boundaries do not always lead to significant changes in the activity pattern. Here, we investigated the consequences of the TAD boundaries deletion on the expression of developmentally important genes encoding tyrosine kinase receptors: Kit, Kdr, Pdgfra. We used genome editing in mice to delete the TADs boundaries at the Kit locus and characterized chromatin folding and gene expression in pure cultures of fibroblasts, mast cells, and melanocytes. We found that although Kit is highly active in both mast cells and melanocytes, deletion of the TAD boundary between the Kit and Kdr genes results in ectopic activation only in melanocytes. Thus, the epigenetic landscape, namely the mutual arrangement of enhancers and actively transcribing genes, is important for predicting the consequences of the TAD boundaries removal. We also found that mice without a TAD border between the Kit and Kdr genes have a phenotypic manifestation of the mutation - a lighter coloration. Thus, the data obtained shed light on the principles of interaction between the 3D chromatin organization and epigenetic marks in the regulation of gene activity.
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