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| Journal Article | DKFZ-2026-01904 |
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2026
Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
London
Abstract: In eukaryotes, transcription factors (TFs) must continuously compete with nucleosomes to access their binding sites, leading to cell-to-cell variability in chromatin accessibility at regulatory regions. Although critical to understand enhancer function in transcription, the mechanisms that define how frequently an enhancer is active in a cell population remain unclear. Here we used single-molecule footprinting to quantify the frequency at which chromatin is accessible at enhancers in response to TF perturbations and changes in their chromatin environment. We find that, individually, most TFs open chromatin in a small fraction of cells, and that cumulative TF binding controls enhancer activation frequency. Moreover, testing the functionality of hundreds of enhancers when inserted at an ectopic genomic location indicates that p300 activity is required for their full activation. Our data support a model in which enhancer activation frequency depends on the cumulative function of multiple TFs and is modulated by p300 activity.
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