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Context-dependent CpG methylation directs cell-specific binding of transcription factor ZBTB38

Claire Marchal
Benoit Miotto

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DNA methylation on CpGs regulates transcription in mammals, both by decreasing the binding of methylation-repelled factors and by increasing the binding of methylation-attracted factors. Among the latter, zinc finger proteins have the potential to bind methylated CpGs in a sequence-specific context. The protein ZBTB38 is unique in that it has two independent sets of zinc fingers, which recognize two different methylated consensus sequences in vitro. Here, we identify the binding sites of ZBTB38 in a human cell line, and show that they contain the two methylated consensus sequences identified in vitro. In addition, we show that the distribution of ZBTB38 sites is highly unusual: while 10% of the ZBTB38 sites are also bound by CTCF, the other 90% of sites reside in closed chromatin and are not bound by any of the other factors mapped in our model cell line. Finally, a third of ZBTB38 sites are found upstream of long and active CpG islands. Our work therefore validates ZBTB38 as a methyl-DNA binder in vivo and identifies its unique distribution in the genome.
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inserm-04251198 , version 1 (20-10-2023)

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Claire Marchal, Pierre-Antoine Defossez, Benoit Miotto. Context-dependent CpG methylation directs cell-specific binding of transcription factor ZBTB38. Epigenetics, 2022, 17 (13), pp.2122-2143. ⟨10.1080/15592294.2022.2111135⟩. ⟨inserm-04251198⟩
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