C/EBPα mediates the growth inhibitory effect of progestins on breast cancer cells.
EMBO JOURNAL(2019)
摘要
Steroid hormones are key gene regulators in breast cancer cells. While estrogens stimulate cell proliferation, progestins activate a single cell cycle followed by proliferation arrest. Here, we use biochemical and genome-wide approaches to show that progestins achieve this effect via a functional crosstalk with C/EBP alpha. Using ChIP-seq, we identify around 1,000 sites where C/EBP alpha binding precedes and helps binding of progesterone receptor (PR) in response to hormone. These regions exhibit epigenetic marks of active enhancers, and C/EBP alpha maintains an open chromatin conformation that facilitates loading of ligand-activated PR. Prior to hormone exposure, C/EBP alpha favors promoter-enhancer contacts that assure hormonal regulation of key genes involved in cell proliferation by facilitating binding of RAD21, YY1, and the Mediator complex. Knockdown of C/EBP alpha disrupts enhancer-promoter contacts and decreases the presence of these architectural proteins, highlighting its key role in 3D chromatin looping. Thus, C/EBP alpha fulfills a previously unknown function as a potential growth modulator in hormone-dependent breast cancer.
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breast cancer,C/EBP alpha,cell proliferation,hormone-dependent gene regulation,progesterone receptor
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