Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

ZMYND8 mediated liquid condensates spatiotemporally decommission the latent super-enhancers during macrophage polarization

  • Pan Jia,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Xuelei Wang,
  • Liangjiao Yao,
  • Yingying Xu,
  • Yu Hu,
  • Wenwen Xu,
  • Zhe He,
  • Qifan Zhao,
  • Yicong Deng,
  • Yi Zang,
  • Meiyu Zhang,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Jun Qin,
  • Wei Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26864-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Macrophages employ epigenetic remodeling, especially the regulation of superenhancers (SEs), to promote classical polarization and function; whether liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is involved is not known. Here, the authors show the epigenetic reader ZMYND8 forms condensates to deactivate latent SEs in a spatiotemporal manner and thereby restrict macrophage-mediated inflammation.