Publication Date:
2013-06-04
Description:
Rev-Erb-alpha and Rev-Erb-beta are nuclear receptors that regulate the expression of genes involved in the control of circadian rhythm, metabolism and inflammatory responses. Rev-Erbs function as transcriptional repressors by recruiting nuclear receptor co-repressor (NCoR)-HDAC3 complexes to Rev-Erb response elements in enhancers and promoters of target genes, but the molecular basis for cell-specific programs of repression is not known. Here we present evidence that in mouse macrophages Rev-Erbs regulate target gene expression by inhibiting the functions of distal enhancers that are selected by macrophage-lineage-determining factors, thereby establishing a macrophage-specific program of repression. Remarkably, the repressive functions of Rev-Erbs are associated with their ability to inhibit the transcription of enhancer-derived RNAs (eRNAs). Furthermore, targeted degradation of eRNAs at two enhancers subject to negative regulation by Rev-Erbs resulted in reduced expression of nearby messenger RNAs, suggesting a direct role of these eRNAs in enhancer function. By precisely defining eRNA start sites using a modified form of global run-on sequencing that quantifies nascent 5' ends, we show that transfer of full enhancer activity to a target promoter requires both the sequences mediating transcription-factor binding and the specific sequences encoding the eRNA transcript. These studies provide evidence for a direct role of eRNAs in contributing to enhancer functions and suggest that Rev-Erbs act to suppress gene expression at a distance by repressing eRNA transcription.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3839578/" 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/PMC3839578/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lam, Michael T Y -- Cho, Han -- Lesch, Hanna P -- Gosselin, David -- Heinz, Sven -- Tanaka-Oishi, Yumiko -- Benner, Christopher -- Kaikkonen, Minna U -- Kim, Aneeza S -- Kosaka, Mika -- Lee, Cindy Y -- Watt, Andy -- Grossman, Tamar R -- Rosenfeld, Michael G -- Evans, Ronald M -- Glass, Christopher K -- CA014195/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA17390/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA52599/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- DK057978/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK063491/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK091183/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- HL088093/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL105278/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P01 DK074868/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- P01 HL088093/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA014195/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 DK063491/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA052599/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA173903/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK018477/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK091183/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL105278/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R37 DK057978/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007198-37/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM008666/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U19 DK062434/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- U19DK62434/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jun 27;498(7455):511-5. doi: 10.1038/nature12209. Epub 2013 Jun 2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23728303" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Animals
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Base Sequence
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Binding Sites
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Down-Regulation/*genetics
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Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics
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Gene Knockdown Techniques
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Macrophages/*metabolism
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Mice
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Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group D, Member 1/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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Organ Specificity
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Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
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RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism
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Response Elements/genetics
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Transcription, Genetic/*genetics
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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