Regulation of Chromatin Accessibility by hypoxia and HIF
Preprint
- 8 January 2022
- preprint
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Abstract
Reduced oxygen availability (hypoxia) can act as a signalling cue in physiological processes such as development, but also in pathological conditions such as cancer or ischaemic disease. As such, understanding how cells and organisms respond to hypoxia is of great importance. The family of transcription factors called Hypoxia Inducible Factors (HIFs) coordinate a transcriptional programme required for survival and adaptation to hypoxia. The effects of hypoxia and HIF on the chromatin accessibility landscape are still unclear. Here, using genome wide mapping of chromatin accessibility via ATAC-seq, we find hypoxia induces loci specific changes in chromatin accessibility enriched at hypoxia transcriptionally responsive genes. These changes are predominantly HIF dependent, reversible upon reoxygenation and partially mimicked by chemical HIF stabilisation independent of molecular dioxygenase inhibition. This work demonstrates that indeed, HIF stabilisation is necessary and sufficient to alter chromatin accessibility in hypoxia, with implications for our understanding of gene expression regulation by hypoxia and HIF.Keywords
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