Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Remodeling of active endothelial enhancers is associated with aberrant gene-regulatory networks in pulmonary arterial hypertension

  • Armando Reyes-Palomares,
  • Mingxia Gu,
  • Fabian Grubert,
  • Ivan Berest,
  • Silin Sa,
  • Maya Kasowski,
  • Christian Arnold,
  • Mao Shuai,
  • Rohith Srivas,
  • Simon Miao,
  • Dan Li,
  • Michael P. Snyder,
  • Marlene Rabinovitch,
  • Judith B. Zaugg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15463-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a heterogeneous disease, causing severe breathing problems and cardiac morbidity. Here, the authors study chromatin marks in pulmonary arterial endothelial cells from PAH patients and controls and find changes in transcription factor and enhancer activity that suggest an aberrant response to signalling in PAH.