Genomic environments scale the activities of diverse core promoters

ABSTRACT: One model for how cells integrate cis-regulatory information is that housekeeping and developmental core promoters respond specifically to certain types of enhancers or chromatin features at different chromosomal locations. We tested this model using a genome-integrated massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) to measure the activity of hundreds of diverse core promoters at four genomic locations While genomic locations had large effects on expression, the relative strengths of core promoters were preserved across locations regardless of promoter class, suggesting that their intrinsic activities are scaled at different genomic locations. We further show that core promoter scaling is a genome-wide phenomenon by testing six core promoters at thousands of locations across the genome. While the rank order of core promoters is preserved, the scaling of expression across the genome is non-linear and depends on the genomic location and the strength of the core promoter, but not on its class, suggesting that housekeeping and developmental promoters do not make different interactions with the surrounding genomic environment. Instead, our results support a modular genome in which genomic environments containing different enhancers and chromatin features scale the activities of core promoters in an independent, but non-linear manner.

ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli DH5[alpha] Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE173678 | GEO | 2021/05/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO