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TET2 binding to enhancers facilitates transcription factor recruitment in hematopoietic cells.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Rasmussen, Kasper D 
Berest, Ivan 
Keβler, Sandra 
Nishimura, Koutarou 
Simón-Carrasco, Lucía 

Abstract

The epigenetic regulator TET2 is frequently mutated in hematological diseases. Mutations have been shown to arise in hematopoietic stem cells early in disease development and lead to altered DNA methylation landscapes and an increased risk of hematopoietic malignancy. Here, we show by genome-wide mapping of TET2 binding sites in different cell types that TET2 localizes to regions of open chromatin and cell-type-specific enhancers. We find that deletion of Tet2 in native hematopoiesis as well as fully transformed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) results in changes in transcription factor (TF) activity within these regions, and we provide evidence that loss of TET2 leads to attenuation of chromatin binding of members of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) TF family. Together, these findings demonstrate that TET2 activity shapes the local chromatin environment at enhancers to facilitate TF binding and provides an example of how epigenetic dysregulation can affect gene expression patterns and drive disease development.

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Keywords

Animals, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, Cell Line, Cells, Cultured, Chromatin, DNA-Binding Proteins, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Epigenesis, Genetic, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Mice, Protein Binding, Proto-Oncogene Proteins

Journal Title

Genome Research

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Journal ISSN

1054-9803
1549-5469

Volume Title

29

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_12009)
K.D.R. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Danish Medical Research Council (FSS 1333-00120B), K.N. was supported by Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers, JSPS (S2704), and L.S.-C. was supported by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship (Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, grant agreement no. H2020-MSCA-IF-2017-796341). The work in the Helin laboratory was supported by grants to K.H. from The European Research Council (294666_DNAMET), the Danish Cancer Society, the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF82), and through a center grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF17CC0027852). This work was also supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH, P30 CA008748).