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Series GSE144076 Query DataSets for GSE144076
Status Public on Apr 19, 2021
Title Phase separation drives aberrant chromatin looping and cancer development [ChIP-Seq]
Organisms Homo sapiens; Mus musculus
Experiment type Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary Development of cancer is intimately associated with genetic abnormalities that target proteins with intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). In human hematological malignancies, recurrent chromosomal translocation of nucleoporin (NUP98 or NUP214) generates an aberrant chimera that invariably retains nucleoporin?s IDR, tandemly dispersed phenylalanine-and-glycine (FG) repeats. However, it remains elusive how unstructured IDRs contribute to oncogenesis. We show that IDR harbored within NUP98-HOXA9, a homeodomain-containing transcription factor (TF) chimera recurrently detected in leukemias, is essential for establishing liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) puncta of chimera and for inducing leukemic transformation. Strikingly, LLPS of NUP98-HOXA9 not only promotes chromatin occupancy of chimera TFs but is also required for formation of a broad, ?super-enhancer?-like binding pattern, typically seen at a battery of leukemogenic genes, potentiating their transcriptional activation. Artificial HOX chimera (FUS-HOXA9), created by replacing NUP98?s FG repeats with an unrelated LLPS-forming IDR of FUS, had similar enhancement effects on chimera?s genome-wide binding and target gene activation. Hi-C mapping further demonstrated that phase-separated NUP98-HOXA9 induces CTCF-independent chromatin looping enriched at proto-oncogenes. Together, this report describes a proof-of-principle example wherein cancer acquires mutation to establish oncogenic TF condensates via phase separation, which simultaneously enhances their genomic targeting and induces organization of aberrant three-dimensional chromatin structure during tumorous transformation. As LLPS-competent molecules are frequently implicated in diseases, this mechanism can potentially be generalized to many malignant and pathological settings.
 
Overall design We compared the genome-wide binding of wildtype (WT) versus IDR-mutated NUP98-HOXA9 and FUS-HOXA9 fusion in the 293 cells. Please note that the GLE2-binding sequence (GLEBS) was deleted from NUP98-HOXA9 (also termed as N-IDR/A9 in the study) and that FUS-HOXA9 was created by in-frame fusion between an unrelated IDR of FUS (amino acids 1-215 that can phase separate) and the HOXA9 homeodomain (also termed as F-IDR/A9 in the study). Phase-separation-disrupting mutations of NUP98?s IDR and FUS? IDR are Phenylalanine-to-Serine (F->S or FS) substitutions at all NUP98 FG-repeats and Tyrosine-to-Serine (Y->S or YS) substitutions at all FUS YG/S sites, respectively. ChIP-seq was conducted with either HA or GFP antibodies in the independently derived cells that express either 3xHA-3xFLAG-tagged or GFP-tagged NUP98-HOXA9, and cells expressing empty vector (EV) served as a negative control. The binding of both WT and IDR-mutated NUP98-HOXA9 (GFP-tagged) was assessed upon cell treatment with 10% of 1,6-Hexanediol for one minute, in comparison to mock treatment. We also examined the genome-wide H3K27 acetylation (H3K27ac) and CTCF binding in the 293 cells that express WT or IDR-mutated NUP98-HOXA9 (3xHA-3xFLAG-tagged). Genome-wide binding of NUP98-HOXA9 (GFP-tagged) was examined in primary murine hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) transformed by this chimera.Comparison of the genome-wide binding of the wild type (WT) or phase-separation-defective mutant form of NUP98-HOXA9 and FUS-HOXA9 chimeric fusion in the 293 stable expression cells. Here, cells with empty vector (EV) are used as negative control, and the mutant forms of NUP98-HOXA9 and FUS-HOXA9 fusion are F-to-S (FS) and Y-to-S (YS), respectively, which disrupt phase-separation ability harbored within the intrinsically disorganized region (IDR) of NUP98 and FUS. As for NUP98-HOXA9 fusion, the used WT and mutant forms are termed as N_IDR_WT and N_IDR_FS, respectively; as for FUS-HOXA9 fusion, the used WT and mutant forms are termed as F_IDR_WT and F_IDR_YS, respectively. In order to disrupt phase separation, cells are treated with 10% of hexanediol for 1 minute. Fusion proteins are tagged with either HA or GFP tag. These cells are examined by ChIP-seq for their genome-wide patterns of fusion proteins (HA or GFP), H3K27 acetylation (H3K27Ac) or CTCF.
 
Contributor(s) Ahn JH, Wang G, Uryu H
Citation(s) 34163069
Submission date Jan 22, 2020
Last update date Jul 19, 2021
Contact name Gang Greg Wang
E-mail(s) greg_wang@med.unc.edu
Phone 919-9665952
Organization name UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Department Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Lab gregwanglab
Street address 450 West Drive
City Chapel Hill
State/province NC
ZIP/Postal code 27599-7295
Country USA
 
Platforms (3)
GPL16791 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Homo sapiens)
GPL21626 NextSeq 550 (Mus musculus)
GPL21697 NextSeq 550 (Homo sapiens)
Samples (30)
GSM5269322 HEK293 EV control cell Input (matched for HA IP)
GSM5269323 HEK293 EV control cell HA IP
GSM5269324 HEK293 FS mutant NUP98-HOXA9 (HA) Input (matched for HA IP)
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE144643 A phase separation mechanism underlies development of cancer and aberrant organization of three-dimensional chromatin structure
Relations
BioProject PRJNA602701
SRA SRP243925

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE144076_HEK293_CTCF_CHIP_N_IDR_FS_A9_cell.bw 435.1 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_CTCF_CHIP_N_IDR_WT_A9_cell.bw 462.6 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_EV_HA_CHIP.bw 792.7 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_F_IDR_FS_A9_GFP_CHIP.bw 491.0 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_F_IDR_WT_A9_GFP_CHIP.bw 515.9 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_H3K27Ac_CHIP_Empty_vector.bw 936.9 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_H3K27Ac_CHIP_N_IDR_FS_A9_cell.bw 780.6 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_H3K27Ac_CHIP_N_IDR_WT_A9_cell.bw 735.8 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_N_IDR_FS_A9_GFP_CHIP_Hexanediol_treated.bw 528.4 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_N_IDR_FS_A9_GFP_CHIP_mock-treated.bw 644.9 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_N_IDR_FS_A9_HA_CHIP.bw 928.6 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_N_IDR_WT_A9_GFP_CHIP_Hexanediol_treated.bw 538.1 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_N_IDR_WT_A9_GFP_CHIP_mock-treated.bw 537.2 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HEK293_N_IDR_WT_A9_HA_CHIP.bw 804.7 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
GSE144076_HPSC_N_IDR_WT_A9_GFP_CHIP.bw 446.1 Mb (ftp)(http) BW
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