Study of three-dimensional structure of chromatin through a 4C-seq experiment in mouse NSC shControl and shJMJD3 upon TGFβ treatment [Aopep]

In this study we analyzed how multiple enhancers arrange in the 3D-space to control the activation of a specific promoter. Specifically, we did three 4C-seq experiments on different genomic loci where enhancers abound - Chst8, Ldlrad4 and Aopep, which revealed that the TGFβ pathway drives the establishment of contacts between cis-regulatory elements. Furthermore, we discovered that the TGFβ pathway coactivator JMJD3 is essential to maintain these 3D-structures. Specifically, in the Chst8 locus JMJD3 requires a proline-rich intrinsically disordered region to properly induce these loops, and hence gene activation, due to its involvement in the formation of phase-separated biomolecular condensates. Overall, we uncover novel functions for the ubiquitous coactivator JMJD3, and we shed light on the relationships between the 3D-conformation of the chromatin, and their role in regulating the TGFβ-driven response during mammalian neurogenesis. 4C-seq of shControl and shJMJD3 was performed in NSCs non-treated or treated for three hours with TGFβ (in duplicates)