Coordinated binding of NF-κB family members in the response of human cells to lipopolysaccharide

J Schreiber, RG Jenner, HL Murray… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
J Schreiber, RG Jenner, HL Murray, GK Gerber, DK Gifford, RA Young
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006National Acad Sciences
The NF-κB family of transcription factors plays a critical role in numerous cellular processes,
particularly the immune response. Our understanding of how the different NF-κB subunits act
coordinately to regulate gene expression is based on a limited set of genes. We used
genome-scale location analysis to identify targets of all five NF-κB proteins before and after
stimulation of monocytic cells with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In unstimulated cells,
p50 and p52 bound to a large number of gene promoters that were also occupied by RNA …
The NF-κB family of transcription factors plays a critical role in numerous cellular processes, particularly the immune response. Our understanding of how the different NF-κB subunits act coordinately to regulate gene expression is based on a limited set of genes. We used genome-scale location analysis to identify targets of all five NF-κB proteins before and after stimulation of monocytic cells with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In unstimulated cells, p50 and p52 bound to a large number of gene promoters that were also occupied by RNA polymerase II. After LPS stimulation, additional NF-κB subunits bound to these genes and to other genes. Genes that became bound by multiple NF-κB subunits were the most likely to show increases in RNA polymerase II occupancy and gene expression. This study identifies NF-κB target genes, reveals how the different NF-κB proteins coordinate their activity, and provides an initial map of the transcriptional regulatory network that underlies the host response to infection.
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