Enhancer variants reveal a conserved transcription factor network governed by PU.1 during osteoclast differentiation

作     者：Heather A.Carey Blake E.Hildreth III Jennifer A.Geisler Mara C.Nickel Jennifer Cabrera Sankha Ghosh Yue Jiang Jing Yan James Lee Sandeep Makam Nicholas A.Young Giancarlo R.Valiente Wael N.Jarjour Kun Huang Thomas J.Rosol Ramiro E.Toribio Julia F.Charles Michael C.Ostrowski Sudarshana M.Sharma 

作者机构：Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Hollings Cancer Center Medical University of South Carolina Division of Rheumatology Immunology and Allergy Department of Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Division of Rheumatology and Immunology Department of Internal Medicine The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Department of Biomedical Informatics The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center 

出 版 物：《Bone Research》 (骨研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第6卷第1期

页      面：83-94页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported by NIH-NIAMS Grant 2R01AR044719-15A (M.C.O. and S.M.S.) NIH-NIAMS Grant K08AR062590 (J.F.C.) 

主　　题：Genome-wide GWASs MITF 

摘      要：Genome-wide association studies(GWASs) have been instrumental in understanding complex phenotypic traits. However, they have rarely been used to understand lineage-specific pathways and functions that contribute to the trait. In this study, by integrating lineage-specific enhancers from mesenchymal and myeloid compartments with bone mineral density loci, we were able to segregate osteoblast-and osteoclast(OC)-specific functions. Specifically, in OCs, a PU.1-dependent transcription factor(TF)network was revealed. Deletion of PU.1 in OCs in mice resulted in severe osteopetrosis. Functional genomic analysis indicated PU.1 and MITF orchestrated a TF network essential for OC differentiation. Several of these TFs were regulated by cooperative binding of PU.1 with BRD4 to form superenhancers. Further, PU.1 is essential for conformational changes in the superenhancer region of Nfatc1. In summary, our study demonstrates that combining GWASs with genome-wide binding studies and model organisms could decipher lineage-specific pathways contributing to complex disease states.