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switch from specified subtypes to cholinergic amacrine cells in the absence of BHLHE22, establishing that BHLHE22 actively suppresses alternative fates rather than simply promoting survival.","evidence":"Cre-loxP lineage tracing with Bhlhb5-Cre knock-in, GFP reporter, cell-type-specific marker immunostaining in wildtype and Bhlhb5-null retinas","pmids":["24123365"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["Transcriptional targets that must be repressed to prevent cholinergic fate not identified","Whether fate switching is complete or partial at single-cell resolution unclear","Mechanisms governing lineage allocation to the diverse BHLHE22-dependent subtypes not dissected"]},{"year":2023,"claim":"Discovery that BHLHE22 directly binds the CSF2 promoter and recruits PRMT5 to epigenetically activate CSF2 revealed a context-dependent switch from repressor to activator and established a mechanism by which BHLHE22 drives immunosuppressive myeloid cell infiltration in cancer.","evidence":"ChIP, DNA pulldown, co-immunoprecipitation, luciferase reporter, RNA-seq, cytokine array, flow cytometry, and xenograft bone metastasis mouse models in prostate cancer cells","pmids":["36941015"],"confidence":"High","gaps":["How BHLHE22 switches from repressor (neural) to activator (cancer) mode mechanistically unresolved","Whether PRMT5 recruitment is specific to the CSF2 locus or genome-wide not tested","Generalizability to cancer types beyond prostate not established"]},{"year":null,"claim":"The genome-wide direct target gene repertoire of BHLHE22 and the cofactor complexes mediating its context-dependent repressor versus activator functions remain undefined.","evidence":"","pmids":[],"confidence":"Low","gaps":["No genome-wide ChIP-seq or CUT&RUN in any cell type","Structural basis of DNA-binding specificity and partner heterodimerization unknown","No identified co-repressor complex in the neural 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In the retina, BHLHE22 acts downstream of retinogenic bHLH factors (Math5, NeuroD) to specify GABAergic amacrine, glycinergic amacrine, dopaminergic amacrine, and Type 2 OFF-cone bipolar cell subtypes; in its absence, lineage-traced cells undergo fate switching to cholinergic amacrine identity [PMID:17092954, PMID:24123365]. In the spinal cord, BHLHE22 operates downstream of retinoid signaling and homeodomain proteins to promote dI6, V1, and V2 interneuron progenitor formation and organizes spatially restricted expression of Notch ligands and Fringe proteins to pattern adjacent interneuron populations [PMID:21750031]. In prostate cancer, BHLHE22 directly binds the CSF2 promoter and recruits the arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 to epigenetically activate CSF2 expression, driving secretion of CSF2 and infiltration of immunosuppressive myeloid cells in the bone tumor microenvironment [PMID:36941015]."},"prefetch_data":{"uniprot":{"accession":"Q8NFJ8","full_name":"Class E basic helix-loop-helix protein 22","aliases":["Class B basic helix-loop-helix protein 5","bHLHb5","Trinucleotide repeat-containing gene 20 protein"],"length_aa":381,"mass_kda":37.0,"function":"Inhibits DNA binding of TCF3/E47 homodimers and TCF3 (E47)/NEUROD1 heterodimers and acts as a strong repressor of Neurod1 and Myod-responsive genes, probably by heterodimerization with class a basic helix-loop-helix factors. Despite the presence of an intact basic domain, does not bind to DNA (By similarity). 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