Densely interconnected transcriptional circuits control cell states in human hematopoiesis

Noa Novershtern, Aravind Subramanian, Lee N. Lawton, Raymond H. Mak, W. Nicholas Haining, Marie E. McConkey, Naomi Habib, Nir Yosef, Cindy Y. Chang, Tal Shay, Garrett M. Frampton, Adam C. B. Drake, Ilya Leskov, Bjorn Nilsson, Fred Preffer, David Dombkowski, John W. Evans, Ted Liefeld, John S. Smutko, Jianzhu ChenNir Friedman, Richard A. Young, Todd R. Golub, Aviv Regev, Benjamin L. Ebert

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Abstract

Though many individual transcription factors are known to regulate hematopoietic differentiation, major aspects of the global architecture of hematopoiesis remain unknown. Here, we profiled gene expression in 38 distinct purified populations of human hematopoietic cells and used probabilistic models of gene expression and analysis of cis-elements in gene promoters to decipher the general organization of their regulatory circuitry. We identified modules of highly coexpressed genes, some of which are restricted to a single lineage but most of which are expressed at variable levels across multiple lineages. We found densely interconnected cis-regulatory circuits and a large number of transcription factors that are differentially expressed across hematopoietic states. These findings suggest a more complex regulatory system for hematopoiesis than previously assumed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)296-309
Number of pages14
JournalCell
Volume144
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jan 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology

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