Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Vascular smooth muscle cell atherosclerosis trajectories characterized at single cell resolution identify causal transcriptomic and epigenomic mechanisms of disease risk
doi: 10.1101/2025.06.04.655863
Figure Lengend Snippet: A. Hierarchically clustered heatmap of differential ChromVar scores ( Tcf21 -KO vs. control) labeled with selected representative TF motifs B. Jensen-Shannon divergence of observed Tcf21 -KO vs. control ChromVar scores showing motifs demonstrating significant probability divergence between conditions. Control JSD is calculated by randomly splitting control dataset into two equal distributions and calculating the JSD between these distributions. C. ChIPseq peak overlap between TCF21 and TEAD1. D. Representative pathways identified from shared ChIPseq peaks using Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool (GREAT). E. GWASAnalytics analysis of GWAS SNP (EMBL-EBI GWAS Catalog) enrichment of overlapping ChIPseq peaks between TCF21 and TEAD1 showing highest enrichment for CAD traits. F. Proximity ligation assay showing nuclear fluorescent signal enrichment in the TCF21 + TEAD1 antibody group compared with TCF21+IgG control. G, H, I. Dual luciferase assay for overlapping regulatory regions ( SRF Intron, BMP1 Intron, LOXL1 Promoter) for TCF21 and TEAD1 demonstrating competitive repression and epigenetic fine-tuning of enhancer/promoter activity between regulatory elements.
Article Snippet: All ChIPseq data generated and analyzed (CEBPB, H3K27ac, TEAD1) are deposited to National Center for Biotechnology Information Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) to be made available for public access.
Techniques: Control, Labeling, Proximity Ligation Assay, Luciferase, Activity Assay