Regulation of chromatin accessibility by hypoxia and HIF

  • Michael Batie
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Cell Signalling, Institute of Systems Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L697ZB, U.K.
  • Julianty Frost
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Cell Signalling, Institute of Systems Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L697ZB, U.K.
  • Dilem Shakir
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Cell Signalling, Institute of Systems Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L697ZB, U.K.
  • Sonia Rocha
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Cell Signalling, Institute of Systems Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L697ZB, U.K.

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<jats:p>Reduced oxygen availability (hypoxia) can act as a signalling cue in physiological processes such as development, but also in pathological conditions such as cancer or ischaemic disease. As such, understanding how cells and organisms respond to hypoxia is of great importance. The family of transcription factors called Hypoxia Inducible Factors (HIFs) co-ordinate a transcriptional programme required for survival and adaptation to hypoxia. However, the effects of HIF on chromatin accessibility are currently unclear. Here, using genome wide mapping of chromatin accessibility via ATAC-seq, we find hypoxia induces loci specific changes in chromatin accessibility are enriched at a subset hypoxia transcriptionally responsive genes, agreeing with previous data using other models. We show for the first time that hypoxia inducible changes in chromatin accessibility across the genome are predominantly HIF dependent, rapidly reversible upon reoxygenation and partially mimicked by HIF-α stabilisation independent of molecular dioxygenase inhibition. This work demonstrates that HIF is central to chromatin accessibility alterations in hypoxia, and has implications for our understanding of gene expression regulation by hypoxia and HIF.</jats:p>

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