Tissue-specific BMAL1 cistromes reveal that rhythmic transcription is associated with rhythmic enhancer–enhancer interactions

JR Beytebiere, AJ Trott, BJ Greenwell… - Genes & …, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
JR Beytebiere, AJ Trott, BJ Greenwell, CA Osborne, H Vitet, J Spence, SH Yoo, Z Chen…
Genes & development, 2019genesdev.cshlp.org
The mammalian circadian clock relies on the transcription factor CLOCK: BMAL1 to
coordinate the rhythmic expression of thousands of genes. Consistent with the various
biological functions under clock control, rhythmic gene expression is tissue-specific despite
an identical clockwork mechanism in every cell. Here we show that BMAL1 DNA binding is
largely tissue-specific, likely because of differences in chromatin accessibility between
tissues and cobinding of tissue-specific transcription factors. Our results also indicate that …
Abstract
The mammalian circadian clock relies on the transcription factor CLOCK: BMAL1 to coordinate the rhythmic expression of thousands of genes. Consistent with the various biological functions under clock control, rhythmic gene expression is tissue-specific despite an identical clockwork mechanism in every cell. Here we show that BMAL1 DNA binding is largely tissue-specific, likely because of differences in chromatin accessibility between tissues and cobinding of tissue-specific transcription factors. Our results also indicate that BMAL1 ability to drive tissue-specific rhythmic transcription is associated with not only the activity of BMAL1-bound enhancers but also the activity of neighboring enhancers. Characterization of physical interactions between BMAL1 enhancers and other cis-regulatory regions by RNA polymerase II chromatin interaction analysis by paired-end tag (ChIA-PET) reveals that rhythmic BMAL1 target gene expression correlates with rhythmic chromatin interactions. These data thus support that much of BMAL1 target gene transcription depends on BMAL1 capacity to rhythmically regulate a network of enhancers.
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