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Transcription Initiation Platforms and GTF recruitment at tissue-specific enhancers and promoters

ABSTRACT: Recent works have shown that RNA Polymerase (Pol) II can be recruited to, and transcribe, distal regulatory regions. Here, we analyzed transcription initiation and elongation through genome-wide localization of Pol II, General Transcription Factors (GTFs) and active chromatin in developing T-cells. We show that Pol II and GTFs are recruited to known, highly T-cell-specific enhancers. We extend this observation for the first time to many new putative enhancers, a majority of which are transcribed with or without polyadenylation. Importantly, we also identify genomic features characterized by large Pol II/GTFs recruitment and Transcriptional Initiation Platforms (TIPs) at promoters, intergenic and intragenic regions. TIPs are characterized by variable widths (0.4 to 10 kb), and correlate with high CpG content and tissue-specificity at promoters. Finally, we also report differential recruitment of TFIID and other GTFs at promoters and enhancers. Overall, we propose that TIPs represent important novel regulatory hallmarks of the genome. This study is based on the analysis of 20 samples in mouse double-positive thymocytes, 15 of which cover a range of general and specific transcription factors, chromatin modifying enzymes as well as histone modifications. 2 samples were dedicated for strand-specific RNA sequencing either from the total RNA population or after a selection of Poly(A) RNA. A Formaldehyde-Assisted Isolation of Regulatory Elements (FAIRE) sample has been sequenced in order to isolate open chromatin regions. Finally, input and IG control samples were designed and sequenced for data processing purposes. Biological and technical replicates were processed as described in the supplementary methods.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Romain Fenouil

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-29362 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Transcription initiation platforms and GTF recruitment at tissue-specific enhancers and promoters.

Koch Frederic F Fenouil Romain R Gut Marta M Cauchy Pierre P Albert Thomas K TK Zacarias-Cabeza Joaquin J Spicuglia Salvatore S de la Chapelle Albane Lamy AL Heidemann Martin M Hintermair Corinna C Eick Dirk D Gut Ivo I Ferrier Pierre P Andrau Jean-Christophe JC

Nature structural & molecular biology 20110717 8

Recent work has shown that RNA polymerase (Pol) II can be recruited to and transcribe distal regulatory regions. Here we analyzed transcription initiation and elongation through genome-wide localization of Pol II, general transcription factors (GTFs) and active chromatin in developing T cells. We show that Pol II and GTFs are recruited to known T cell-specific enhancers. We extend this observation to many new putative enhancers, a majority of which can be transcribed with or without polyadenylat ...[more]

PMID: 21765417

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Transcription Initiation Platforms and GTF recruitment at tissue-specific enhancers and promoters

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