Transcriptional outcomes and kinetic patterning of gene expression in response to NF-κB activation

Mingming Zhao, Jaimy Joy, Weiqiang Zhou, Supriyo De, William H Wood, Kevin G Becker, Hongkai Ji and Ranjan Sen

PLOS Biology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 9, 1-33

Abstract: Transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) regulates cellular responses to environmental cues. Many stimuli induce NF-κB transiently, making time-dependent transcriptional outputs a fundamental feature of NF-κB activation. Here we show that NF-κB target genes have distinct kinetic patterns in activated B lymphoma cells. By combining RELA binding, RNA polymerase II (Pol II) recruitment, and perturbation of NF-κB activation, we demonstrate that kinetic differences amongst early- and late-activated RELA target genes can be understood based on chromatin configuration prior to cell activation and RELA-dependent priming, respectively. We also identified genes that were repressed by RELA activation and others that responded to RELA-activated transcription factors. Cumulatively, our studies define an NF-κB-responsive inducible gene cascade in activated B cells.Author summary: The nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) family of transcription factors regulates cellular responses to a wide variety of environmental cues. These could be extracellular stimuli that activate cell surface receptors, such as pathogens, or intracellular stress signals such as DNA damage or oxidative stress. In response to these triggers, NF-κB proteins accumulate in the cell nucleus, bind to specific DNA sequences in the genome, and thereby modulate gene transcription. Because of the diversity of signals that activate NF-κB and the ubiquity of this pathway in most cell types, cellular outcomes via NF-κB activation must be finely tuned to respond to the initiating stimulus. One mechanism by which NF-κB-dependent gene expression is regulated is by varying the duration of nuclear NF-κB; some signals lead to persistent nuclear NF-κB, while others lead to transient nuclear NF-κB. Consequently, time dependency of transcriptional responses is a unique signature of the initiating stimulus. Here we probed mechanisms that generate kinetic patterns of NF-κB-dependent gene expression in B lymphoma cells responding to a transient NF-κB-activating stimulus. By genetically manipulating NF-κB induction, we identified direct targets of RELA, a member of the NF-κB family, and provide evidence that kinetic patterns are established by a combination of factors that include the chromatin state of genes prior to cell activation and cofactors that work with RELA.

Date: 2018
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