Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Conserved regulatory logic at accessible and inaccessible chromatin during the acute inflammatory response in mammals

  • Azad Alizada,
  • Nadiya Khyzha,
  • Liangxi Wang,
  • Lina Antounians,
  • Xiaoting Chen,
  • Melvin Khor,
  • Minggao Liang,
  • Kumaragurubaran Rathnakumar,
  • Matthew T. Weirauch,
  • Alejandra Medina-Rivera,
  • Jason E. Fish,
  • Michael D. Wilson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20765-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Genetic elements that control inflammatory gene expression are not fully elucidated. Here the authors conduct a multi-species analysis of chromatin landscape and NF-κB binding in response to the proinflammatory cytokine TNFα, finding that conserved NF-κB bound regions are linked to enhancer activity and disease.