A novel oncogenic enhancer of estrogen receptor positive breast cancer

To understand the regulatory landscape of oncogene c-Myc in breast cancer, two epigenetic hallmarks of open chromatin, consisting of H3K4me1 and H3K27ac, were investigated by ChIP-seq in distinct types of human breast cancer cells (estrogen receptor positive MCF-7 and triple-negative MDA-MB-231), respectively. By visualizing the ChIP-seq at c-Myc locus, we noticed that the H3K4me1 and H3K27ac signals were enriched remarkably upstream ~65 kb of c-Myc in MCF-7 cells but not in MDA-MB-231 cells. The results indicated that c-Myc may be regulted by an enhancer located upstream ~65 kb. Overall design: ChIP-Seq data from MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells