The H3K4 methyltransferase KMT2D is an essential cofactor for GATA1 at erythroid gene enhancers [ATAC-seq]

Accordingly, we observed that KMT2D is indispensable for the activation of erythroid signature genes in a stage dependent manner. Moreover, to further study the direct transcriptional regulatory role of KMT2D, we established two endogenous N-terminus AID-KMT2D system in t human erythroblast cell lines and systematically investigated the effects of acute KMT2D loss by auxin-inducible degron system on transcriptional programs and chromatin accessibility.

By integrating multi-omics datasets, we revealed that acute KMT2D loss notably suppressed the subset of GATA1 downstream targets. Importantly, we profiled the specific genome-wide occupancy of KMT2D by comparison between the presence and absence of KMT2D in AID model. Strikingly, KMT2D occupies over hundreds of erythroid specific genes mostly on their promoters.