Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model
Abstract While transposons are generally silenced in somatic tissues, many transposons escape epigenetic repression in epithelial cancers, become transcriptionally active and contribute to the regulation of human gene expression. We have developed a bioinformatic pipeline for the integrated analysis...
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| author | Jiayue-Clara Jiang Joseph A. Rothnagel Kyle R. Upton |
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| description | Abstract While transposons are generally silenced in somatic tissues, many transposons escape epigenetic repression in epithelial cancers, become transcriptionally active and contribute to the regulation of human gene expression. We have developed a bioinformatic pipeline for the integrated analysis of transcription factor binding and transcriptomic data to identify transposon-derived promoters that are activated in specific diseases and developmental states. We applied this pipeline to a breast cancer model, and found that the L1PA2 transposon subfamily contributes abundant regulatory sequences to co-ordinated transcriptional regulation in breast cancer. Transcription factor profiling demonstrates that over 27% of L1PA2 transposons harbour co-localised binding sites of functionally interacting, cancer-associated transcription factors in MCF7 cells, a cell line used to model breast cancer. Transcriptomic analysis reveals that L1PA2 transposons also contribute transcription start sites to up-regulated transcripts in MCF7 cells, including some transcripts with established oncogenic properties. In addition, we verified the utility of our pipeline on other transposon subfamilies, as well as on leukemia and lung carcinoma cell lines. We demonstrate that the normally quiescent regulatory activities of transposons can be activated and alter the cancer transcriptome. In particular, the L1PA2 subfamily contributes abundant regulatory sequences, and likely plays a global role in modulating breast cancer transcriptional regulation. Understanding the regulatory impact of L1PA2 on breast cancer genomes provides additional insights into cancer genome regulation, and may provide novel biomarkers for disease diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b7fc12492b4b4d2bb4b821a58664062c2022-12-21T23:38:27ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222021-04-0111111810.1038/s41598-021-86395-9Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer modelJiayue-Clara Jiang0Joseph A. Rothnagel1Kyle R. Upton2School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of QueenslandSchool of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of QueenslandSchool of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of QueenslandAbstract While transposons are generally silenced in somatic tissues, many transposons escape epigenetic repression in epithelial cancers, become transcriptionally active and contribute to the regulation of human gene expression. We have developed a bioinformatic pipeline for the integrated analysis of transcription factor binding and transcriptomic data to identify transposon-derived promoters that are activated in specific diseases and developmental states. We applied this pipeline to a breast cancer model, and found that the L1PA2 transposon subfamily contributes abundant regulatory sequences to co-ordinated transcriptional regulation in breast cancer. Transcription factor profiling demonstrates that over 27% of L1PA2 transposons harbour co-localised binding sites of functionally interacting, cancer-associated transcription factors in MCF7 cells, a cell line used to model breast cancer. Transcriptomic analysis reveals that L1PA2 transposons also contribute transcription start sites to up-regulated transcripts in MCF7 cells, including some transcripts with established oncogenic properties. In addition, we verified the utility of our pipeline on other transposon subfamilies, as well as on leukemia and lung carcinoma cell lines. We demonstrate that the normally quiescent regulatory activities of transposons can be activated and alter the cancer transcriptome. In particular, the L1PA2 subfamily contributes abundant regulatory sequences, and likely plays a global role in modulating breast cancer transcriptional regulation. Understanding the regulatory impact of L1PA2 on breast cancer genomes provides additional insights into cancer genome regulation, and may provide novel biomarkers for disease diagnosis, prognosis and therapy.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86395-9 |
| spellingShingle | Jiayue-Clara Jiang Joseph A. Rothnagel Kyle R. Upton Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model Scientific Reports |
| title | Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model |
| title_full | Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model |
| title_fullStr | Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model |
| title_short | Integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies L1PA2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model |
| title_sort | integrated transcription factor profiling with transcriptome analysis identifies l1pa2 transposons as global regulatory modulators in a breast cancer model |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86395-9 |
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