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Bivalency in Drosophila embryos is associated with strong inducibility of Polycomb target genes.


ABSTRACT: Polycomb group (PcG) and Trithorax group (TrxG) proteins orchestrate development of a multicellular organism by faithfully maintaining cell fate decisions made early in embryogenesis. An important chromatin mark connected to PcG/TrxG regulation is bivalent domains, the simultaneous presence of H3K27me3 and H3K4me3 on a given locus, originally identified in mammalian embryonic stem cells but considered to be absent in invertebrates. Here, we provide evidence for the existence of bivalency in fly embryos. Using a recently described PcG reporter fly line, we observed a strong reporter inducibility in the embryo and its sharp decrease in larval and adult stages. Analysis of the chromatin landscape of the reporter revealed a strong signal for the repressive PcG mark, H3K27me3, in all three developmental stages and, surprisingly, a strong signal for a transcriptionally activating H3K4me3 mark in the embryo. Using re-chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments, bivalent domains were also uncovered at endogenous PcG targets like the Hox genes.

SUBMITTER: Akmammedov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6988889 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar - Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bivalency in <i>Drosophila</i> embryos is associated with strong inducibility of Polycomb target genes.

Akmammedov Arslan A   Geigges Marco M   Paro Renato R  

Fly 20190301 1-4


Polycomb group (PcG) and Trithorax group (TrxG) proteins orchestrate development of a multicellular organism by faithfully maintaining cell fate decisions made early in embryogenesis. An important chromatin mark connected to PcG/TrxG regulation is bivalent domains, the simultaneous presence of H3K27me3 and H3K4me3 on a given locus, originally identified in mammalian embryonic stem cells but considered to be absent in invertebrates. Here, we provide evidence for the existence of bivalency in fly  ...[more]

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