Subtype-specific regulatory network rewiring in acute myeloid leukemia [Hi-C]

Acute myeloid leukemia is a heterogeneous disease which is subdivided into different categories defined by disease-causing mutations in transcription factors, epigenetic regulators and signalling molecules. How different mutant regulators establish AML-specific transcriptional networks is unclear. Here we performed a comprehensive analysis of mutation-specific sets of cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression in AML blast cells from a carefully selected group of patients with alterations in genes encoding transcription factors (RUNX1, CEBPA) and signalling molecules (FTL3-ITD, RAS, NPM1). We show that each mutant regulator establishes a specific transcriptional and signalling network unrelated to normal cells driving the expression of unique sets of genes required for AML survival. promoter capture HiC expreiments have been used to study the chromatin landscape of AML with different mutations