Agata Cieslak, Guillaume Charbonnier, Melania Tesio, Eve-Lyne Mathieu, Mohamed Belhocine, Aurore Touzart, Charlotte Smith, Guillaume Hypolite, Guillaume P Andrieu, Joost H A Martens, Eva Janssen-Megens, Marta Gut, Ivo Gut, Nicolas Boissel, Arnaud Petit, Denis Puthier, Elizabeth Macintyre, Hendrik G Stunnenberg, Salvatore Spicuglia, Vahid Asnafi
Cell differentiation is accompanied by epigenetic changes leading to precise lineage definition and cell identity. Here we present a comprehensive resource of epigenomic data of human T cell precursors along with an integrative analysis of other hematopoietic populations. Although T cell commitment is accompanied by large scale epigenetic changes, we observed that the majority of distal regulatory elements are constitutively unmethylated throughout T cell differentiation, irrespective of their activation status...
September 7, 2020: Journal of Experimental Medicine