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    The Bcl6–SMRT/NCoR cistrome represses inflammation to attenuate atherosclerosis
    (Elsevier, 2012) Barish, Grant D.; Yu, Ruth T.; Karunasiri, Malith S.; Becerra, Diana; Kim, Jason; Tseng, Tiffany W.; Tai, Li-Jung; LeBlanc, Matthias; Diehl, Cody; Cerchietti, Leandro; Miller, Yury I.; Witztum, Joseph L.; Melnick, Ari M.; Dent, Alexander L.; Tangirala, Rajendra K.; Evans, Ronald M.; Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
    Chronic inflammation is a hallmark of atherosclerosis, but its transcriptional underpinnings are poorly understood. We show that the transcriptional repressor Bcl6 is an anti-inflammatory regulator whose loss in bone marrow of Ldlr(-/-) mice results in severe atherosclerosis and xanthomatous tendonitis, a virtually pathognomonic complication in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia. Disruption of the interaction between Bcl6 and SMRT or NCoR with a peptide inhibitor in vitro recapitulated atherogenic gene changes in mice transplanted with Bcl6-deficient bone marrow, pointing to these cofactors as key mediators of Bcl6 inflammatory suppression. Using ChIP-seq, we reveal the SMRT and NCoR corepressor cistromes, each consisting of over 30,000 binding sites with a nearly 50% overlap. While the complete cistromes identify a diversity of signaling pathways, the Bcl6-bound subcistromes for each corepressor are highly enriched for NF-κB-driven inflammatory and tissue remodeling genes. These results reveal that Bcl6-SMRT/NCoR complexes constrain immune responses and contribute to the prevention of atherosclerosis.