SPEN Transcription Factor
spen family transcriptional repressor | KIAA0929, MINT, RBM15C, SHARP

This gene encodes a hormone inducible transcriptional repressor. Repression of transcription by this gene product can occur through interactions with other repressors, by the recruitment of proteins involved in histone deacetylation, or through sequestration of transcriptional activators. The product of this gene contains a carboxy-terminal domain that permits binding to other corepressor proteins. This domain also permits interaction with members of the NuRD complex, a nucleosome remodeling protein complex that contains deacetylase activity. In addition, this repressor contains several RNA recognition motifs that confer binding to a steroid receptor RNA coactivator; this binding can modulate the activity of both liganded and nonliganded steroid receptors. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Member of: DE-2
Biological processes 20 terms
Expression (TPM)
SPEN — as a Regulator

Modules regulated by SPEN

Modules significantly affected by knockdown. ↑ Up = module upregulated upon KD; ↓ Down = module downregulated upon KD.

Evidence: Direction:
Perturbation + Binding
Perturbation only
Binding only
Cluster Dir NES padj Bind OR padj (bind)
Evidence: Direction:
Perturbation + Binding
Perturbation only
Binding only
Module Dir NES #gRNA padj Bind OR padj (bind)
Evidence: Direction: Max shown:
Perturbation + Binding
Perturbation only
Binding only
Submodule Module Dir NES #gRNA Bind OR padj (bind)

Genes regulated by SPEN

Genes likely regulated by SPEN through linked binding evidence in open chromatin. The chart ranks TF-linked genes by their mean Perturb-seq response to SPEN knockdown, with negative coefficients indicating downregulation and positive coefficients indicating upregulation upon knockdown.

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Regulatory Elements bound by the TF

Open chromatin elements (ATAC-seq) where SPEN has ChIP-seq or motif footprint binding evidence and which are linked to at least one target gene region.

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SPEN — as a Regulated Gene

TFs regulating SPEN 0 TFs

Transcription factors with Perturb-seq knockdown data for SPEN. The Binding column indicates whether any binding evidence exists for this TF–gene pair (ChIP-seq or motif footprint peaks). The Mean coef is the average Perturb-seq regression coefficient across active gRNAs (positive = SPEN upregulated upon KD; negative = downregulated). The Outlier column indicates whether this gene is in the top or bottom 5% of all TF knockdown effects.

Data: Effect:
TF Mean coef Binding Outlier TF→Gene link

Elements linked to SPEN

Open chromatin peaks (ATAC-seq) in the genomic neighbourhood of SPEN, linked by TSS proximity or chromatin conformation (Multiome / HiCAR). Each element overlaps at least one TF ChIP-seq binding site — the TFs column shows how many distinct TFs bind that element.

Accessibility Element Dist. to TSS Link type TFs
chr1:15,584,405–15,585,197 251.3 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 693
chr1:15,603,163–15,603,936 232.5 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 795
chr1:15,616,785–15,618,260 218.7 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 909
chr1:15,676,618–15,677,408 158.9 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 95
chr1:15,741,258–15,741,859 94.6 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 436
chr1:15,757,615–15,759,609 77.5 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 439
chr1:15,799,931–15,800,776 35.8 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 734
chr1:15,834,229–15,836,682 52 bp At TSS Multiome 1154
chr1:15,836,832–15,837,702 738 bp At TSS 280
chr1:15,847,036–15,848,900 11.6 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 817
chr1:15,849,314–15,850,241 13.6 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 788
chr1:15,975,319–15,976,269 139.8 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 788
chr1:16,012,632–16,013,679 177.1 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 615
chr1:16,026,326–16,027,360 190.8 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 186
chr1:16,032,851–16,033,317 196.9 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 349
chr1:16,048,527–16,049,209 212.6 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 288
chr1:16,073,117–16,073,908 237.5 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 375
chr1:16,115,357–16,116,733 280.0 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 269
chr1:16,145,972–16,147,046 310.3 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 689

Genome Browser

Genomic view of the SPEN locus showing ATAC-seq accessibility and RNA-seq expression across the ESC → DE time course, together with TF binding peaks and element-to-TSS loop connections.

chr1:15,574,405 – 16,157,046
Proximal 1 kb Distal 10 kb Multiome HiCAR ATAC-seq RNA-seq