Fig. 8. BAF regulates MLL4 binding on C/EBPβ-activated enhancers.
Smarca4AID/AID brown preadipocytes were infected with retroviruses expressing C/EBPβ or vector (Vec), and then infected with retroviruses expressing Tir1. Sub-confluent cells were treated with auxin for 4 h and collected for Western blot, ChIP-Seq and ATAC-Seq analyses. a Western blot analyses using antibodies indicated on the left. n = 3 biological replicates. b Among the 449 C/EBPβ-activated enhancers in preadipocytes, 220 exhibited SMARCA4-independent C/EBPβ binding, while the remaining 229 showed SMARCA4-dependent C/EBPβ binding. c Motif analysis of SMARCA4-independent and -dependent C/EBPβ-activated enhancers in preadipocytes using SeqPos motif tool. d, e Auxin-induced, Tir1-dependent acute depletion of SMARCA4 reduces MLL4 binding on C/EBPβ-activated enhancers in preadipocytes. Heat maps (d) and average profiles (e) around C/EBPβ-activated enhancers are shown. Enhancers shown in the heat maps were ranked by the intensity of C/EBPβ at the center in control cells expressing ectopic C/EBPβ. f A model depicting the interdependent relationship between BAF and MLL4 in promoting pioneer TF- and LDTF-dependent cell type-specific enhancer activation.