作者
Rizi Ai, Teresina Laragione, Deepa Hammaker, David L Boyle, Andre Wildberg, Keisuke Maeshima, Emanuele Palescandolo, Vinod Krishna, David Pocalyko, John W Whitaker, Yuchen Bai, Sunil Nagpal, Kurtis E Bachman, Richard I Ainsworth, Mengchi Wang, Bo Ding, Percio S Gulko, Wei Wang, Gary S Firestein
发表日期
2018/5/15
期刊
Nature communications
卷号
9
期号
1
页码范围
1921
出版商
Nature Publishing Group UK
简介
Epigenetics contributes to the pathogenesis of immune-mediated diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here we show the first comprehensive epigenomic characterization of RA fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS), including histone modifications (H3K27ac, H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K36me3, H3K27me3, and H3K9me3), open chromatin, RNA expression and whole-genome DNA methylation. To address complex multidimensional relationship and reveal epigenetic regulation of RA, we perform integrative analyses using a novel unbiased method to identify genomic regions with similar profiles. Epigenomically similar regions exist in RA cells and are associated with active enhancers and promoters and specific transcription factor binding motifs. Differentially marked genes are enriched for immunological and unexpected pathways, with “Huntington’s Disease Signaling” identified as particularly prominent. We validate …
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