XChIP was performed as described 30 (link). Briefly, 2–4 ×106 hSAECs per 100 mm dish were washed twice with PBS. Protein-protein crosslinking was first performed with Disuccinimidyl glutarate (Pierce), followed by protein-DNA crosslinking with formaldehyde. Equal amounts of sheared chromatin were immuno-precipitated overnight at 4 ºC with 4 µg of the indicated antibodies in ChIP dilution buffer. Immunoprecipitates were collected with 40 µL Dynabeads Protein-A (Novex), washed, and eluted in 250 µl elution buffer for 15 min at room temperature. Samples were de-crosslinked in 0.2 M NaCl at 65 ºC for 4 h. The precipitated DNA was phenol/chloroform-extracted, precipitated with 100% ethanol and air-dried. The following antibodies were used: IRF1 (#8478, Cell Signaling), IRF3 (sc-9082, Santa Cruz), IRF7 (sc-13041, Santa Cruz), RelA (sc-372, Santa Cruz), CtBP (sc-11390, Santa Cruz), EZH2 (17–662, Upstate), H3K27me3 (39155, Active Motif), H3K4me3 (ab8580, Abcam), ZEB1 (sc-25388, Santa Cruz) and ZEB2 (sc-271984, Santa Cruz).