Khund Sayeed, Sreeja Parameswaran, Matthew J Beucler, Lee E Edsall, Andrew VonHandorf, Audrey Crowther, Omer Donmez, Matthew Hass, Scott Richards, Carmy Forney, Jay Wright, Merrin Man Long Leong, Laura A Murray-Nerger, Ben E Gewurz, Kenneth M Kaufman, John B Harley, Bo Zhao, William E Miller, Leah C Kottyan, Matthew T Weirauch
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects up to 80% of the world's population. Here, we show that HCMV infection leads to widespread changes in human chromatin accessibility and chromatin looping, with hundreds of thousands of genomic regions affected 48 hours after infection. Integrative analyses reveal HCMV-induced perturbation of Hippo signaling through drastic reduction of TEAD1 transcription factor activity. We confirm extensive concordant loss of TEAD1 binding, active H3K27ac histone marks, and chromatin looping interactions upon infection...
April 13, 2024: bioRxiv