Frequent interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF1) binding at remote elements without histone modification

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Mohamed Abou El HassanRod Bremner

Abstract

Transcriptional activators bind DNA and recruit cofactors to modify chromatin. The extent to which these two events are separable is unclear. Here, using a custom ChIP tiling array to map chromatin modifications, we show that interferon-γ-induced DNA binding of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1), typically associated with the transcription factor interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF1), causes histone acetylation (H3ac, H4ac). In contrast, among IRF1 sites lacking concomitant STAT1 recruitment, only 25% underwent inducible histone acetylation, 31% exhibited constitutive histone acetylation, and 44% had no histone acetylation. These latter "orphan sites" also lacked other activating modifications (e.g. H3K4me1, H3K4me2) and were typically remote from transcription start sites. In these cases the closest gene was typically an IFNγ-inducible locus that did not respond to IFNγ in this setting. Orphan sites were detected in different cell types, suggesting broad relevance. Despite an atypical downstream response (i.e. no histone modifications), IRF1 binding depended on SWI/SNF-related, matrix-associated, actin-dependent regulator of chromatin, subfamily A, member 4 (SMARCA4 or BRG1), as is typical of active IRF...Continue Reading

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