Publication Date:
2015-03-25
Description:
Adult stem cells occur in niches that balance self-renewal with lineage selection and progression during tissue homeostasis. Following injury, culture or transplantation, stem cells outside their niche often display fate flexibility. Here we show that super-enhancers underlie the identity, lineage commitment and plasticity of adult stem cells in vivo. Using hair follicle as a model, we map the global chromatin domains of hair follicle stem cells and their committed progenitors in their native microenvironments. We show that super-enhancers and their dense clusters ('epicentres') of transcription factor binding sites undergo remodelling upon lineage progression. New fate is acquired by decommissioning old and establishing new super-enhancers and/or epicentres, an auto-regulatory process that abates one master regulator subset while enhancing another. We further show that when outside their niche, either in vitro or in wound-repair, hair follicle stem cells dynamically remodel super-enhancers in response to changes in their microenvironment. Intriguingly, some key super-enhancers shift epicentres, enabling their genes to remain active and maintain a transitional state in an ever-changing transcriptional landscape. Finally, we identify SOX9 as a crucial chromatin rheostat of hair follicle stem cell super-enhancers, and provide functional evidence that super-enhancers are dynamic, dense transcription-factor-binding platforms which are acutely sensitive to pioneer master regulators whose levels define not only spatial and temporal features of lineage-status but also stemness, plasticity in transitional states and differentiation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482136/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482136/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Adam, Rene C -- Yang, Hanseul -- Rockowitz, Shira -- Larsen, Samantha B -- Nikolova, Maria -- Oristian, Daniel S -- Polak, Lisa -- Kadaja, Meelis -- Asare, Amma -- Zheng, Deyou -- Fuchs, Elaine -- R01 AR031737/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- R01-AR31737/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- R21 MH099452/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R21MH099452/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM066699/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 May 21;521(7552):366-70. doi: 10.1038/nature14289. Epub 2015 Mar 18.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology &Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA. ; Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. ; 1] Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA [2] Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25799994" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Adaptation, Physiological
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Adult Stem Cells/*cytology/metabolism
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Animals
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Base Sequence
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Cell Differentiation/*genetics
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Cell Lineage/*genetics
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Chromatin/genetics/metabolism
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Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics
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Female
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Hair Follicle/*cytology
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Mice
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Organ Specificity
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SOX9 Transcription Factor/*metabolism
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Stem Cell Niche
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Time Factors
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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