Feedforward regulation of Myc coordinates lineage-specific with housekeeping gene expression during B cell progenitor cell differentiation

Isabel Ferreirós-Vidal, Thomas Carroll, Tianyi Zhang, Vincenzo Lagani, Ricardo N. Ramirez, Elizabeth Ing-Simmons, Alicia G. Gómez-Valadés, Lee Cooper, Ziwei Liang, Georgios Papoutsoglou, Gopuraja Dharmalingam, Ya Guo, Sonia Tarazona, Sunjay J. Fernandes, Peri Noori, Gilad Silberberg, Amanda G. Fisher, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Ali Mortazavi, Boris LenhardAna Conesa, Jesper Tegner, Matthias Merkenschlager, David Gomez-Cabrero

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Abstract

The differentiation of self-renewing progenitor cells requires not only the regulation of lineage- and developmental stage-specific genes but also the coordinated adaptation of housekeeping functions from a metabolically active, proliferative state toward quiescence. How metabolic and cell-cycle states are coordinated with the regulation of cell type-specific genes is an important question, because dissociation between differentiation, cell cycle, and metabolic states is a hallmark of cancer. Here, we use a model system to systematically identify key transcriptional regulators of Ikaros-dependent B cell-progenitor differentiation. We find that the coordinated regulation of housekeeping functions and tissue-specific gene expression requires a feedforward circuit whereby Ikaros down-regulates the expression of Myc. Our findings show how coordination between differentiation and housekeeping states can be achieved by interconnected regulators. Similar principles likely coordinate differentiation and housekeeping functions during progenitor cell differentiation in other cell lineages.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)e2006506
JournalPLOS Biology
Volume17
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 12 2019

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: EU FP7-Health STATegra project (grant number 36000). AG, VL, RR, AC, GP, ST, SF, PN, ME, JT, AM, MM, DGC. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Wellcome (grant number 099276/Z/12/Z). MM. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Medical Research Council, UK (grant number Institute Core Funding). AGF, BL, MM. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Bloodwise (grant number 09036). LC. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Wellcome (grant number). BL. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. European Research Council (grant number Repleniche). AGF. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. European Research Council (grant number 617393- CAUSALPATH). IT, VL, GP. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. MINECO (grant number BIO2015-71658-R). AC, ST. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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