A functional genomics approach identifies the GATA factor SERPENT as a tissue-specific partner of CLOCK/CYCLE in the Drosophila circadian clock
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ABSTRACT: Broadly expressed transcriptions factors (TFs) control tissue-specific programs of gene expression through interactions with local TF networks. Prime examples are the circadian clock TFs CLOCK (CLK) and CYCLE (CYC or BMAL1): while they control a core transcriptional circuit throughout animal bodies, downstream clock target genes and circadian physiology are tissue-specific. Here, we use ChIP-seq to determine the regulatory targets of Drosophila CLK and CYC, which we epitope-tagged by homologous recombination. Both TFs have distinct binding sites in heads versus bodies, suggesting that they directly control tissue-specific downstream target genes. Analysis of these context-specific binding sites revealed distinct sequence motifs for putative clock partner factors, including a motif for the GATA factor SERPENT (SRP). SRP indeed synergistically enhances CLK/CYC-mediated activity of a cis-regulatory region bound by CLK/CYC specifically in bodies. These results reveal how universal clock circuits can generate tissue-specific outputs and demonstrate an approach to dissect regulatory interactions more generally. We sequenced ChIP and input samples, as well as M-bM-^@M-^\mockM-bM-^@M-^] samples for which we performed ChIP with the V5 antibody from wildtype w- flies (not carrying the V5 tag) for two independent biological replicates each, summing to 24 libraries in total.
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Anais Bardet
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-40467 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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