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Transcriptome analysis of mediator Med20 mutant and dcr1 mutant in S.pombe

ABSTRACT: At Schizosaccharomyces pombe centromeres, non-coding RNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II and processed by the RNAi machinery to direct heterochromatin formation. Mediator is a regulator of RNA polymerase II transcription and we here demonstrated that it also controls the levels of centromeric transcripts. Loss of the Mediator subunit Med20 increases transcription of non-coding RNAs and disrupts the centromeric heterochromatin structure. We have used tilling arrays to study the gene expression changes in Med20 deletionVs WT and Med20 dcr1 double mutant Vs Dcr1 mutant in exponentially growing fission yeast cells to detect how the Med20 gene affect centromeric expression. RNA samples were taken from exponentially growing fission yeast cells and reverse transcribed cDNA from the RNA are hybridized to affymetrix pombe tilling arrays: wild type,med20 mutant, Dcr1 mutants and med20,dcr1 double mutant.

ORGANISM(S): Schizosaccharomyces pombe

SUBMITTER: Claes Gustafsson

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-32310 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Mediator promotes CENP-a incorporation at fission yeast centromeres.

Carlsten Jonas O JO Szilagyi Zsolt Z Liu Beidong B Lopez Marcela Davila MD Szászi Erzsébet E Djupedal Ingela I Nyström Thomas T Ekwall Karl K Gustafsson Claes M CM Zhu Xuefeng X

Molecular and cellular biology 20120730 19

At Schizosaccharomyces pombe centromeres, heterochromatin formation is required for de novo incorporation of the histone H3 variant CENP-A(Cnp1), which in turn directs kinetochore assembly and ultimately chromosome segregation during mitosis. Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) transcribed by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) directs heterochromatin formation through not only the RNA interference (RNAi) machinery but also RNAi-independent RNA processing factors. Control of centromeric ncRNA transcription is theref ...[more]

PMID: 22851695

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Project description:Centromeres are specialized chromatin regions marked by the presence of nucleosomes containing the centromere-specific histone H3 variant CENP-A, which is essential for chromosome segregation. Assembly and disassembly of nucleosomes is intimately linked to DNA topology and DNA topoisomerases have previously been implicated in the dynamics of canonical H3 nucleosomes. Here we show that Schizosaccharomyces pombe Top3 and its partner Rqh1 are involved in controlling the levels of CENP-ACnp1 at centromeres. Both top3 and rqh1 mutants display defects in chromosome segregation. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation and tiling microarrays we show that Top3 unlike Top1 and Top2 is highly enriched at centromeric central domains, demonstrating that Top3 is the major topoisomerase in this region. Moreover, centromeric Top3 occupancy positively correlates with CENP-ACnp1 occupancy. Intriguingly, both top3 and rqh1 mutants display increased relative enrichment of CENP-ACnp1 at centromeric central domains. Thus, Top3 and Rqh1 normally limit the levels of CENP-ACnp1 in this region. This new role is independent of the established function of Top3 and Rqh1 in homologous recombination downstream of Rad51. Therefore, we hypothesize that the Top3-Rqh1 complex has an important role in controlling centromere DNA topology which in turn affects the dynamics of CENP-ACnp1 nucleosomes. For transcription: Total RNA from top3-105 mutant and WT control cells after 8 hours at 36C in biological duplicates. For Top3-myc chromatin immunoprecipitation: DNA immunoprecipitated with mouse anti-Myc using chromatin extracts from cells expressing Top3-Myc from the endogenous locus at 30C in biological duplicates normalized to input DNA from wild type cells at 30C in biological duplicates. For CENP-A/Cnp1 chromatin immunoprecipitation: DNA immunoprecipitated with anti-Cnp1 serum using chromatin extracts from top3-105 mutant and wild type control cells after 8 hours at 36C in in biological duplicates normalized to input DNA from each strain.

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Transcriptome analysis of mediator Med20 mutant and dcr1 mutant in S.pombe

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Mediator promotes CENP-a incorporation at fission yeast centromeres.

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