SmRNAs generated by single-stranded and double-stranded silencers
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PROVIDER: GSE39398 | GEO | 2013/12/23
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA170936
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:To investigate possible smRNAs linked to TMM silencing by single-stranded and double-stranded silencers, we determined sequences of smRNAs by the Illumina high-throughput sequencing platform and compared silencing efficiency of different strategies. We found that single-stranded silencer alone could promote the production of smRNAs. smRNA profiles of 2-week-old wide type seedlings (WT) and different silencers were generated by Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx.
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Project description:smRNAs generated by single-stranded and double-stranded silencers
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Project description:Differential gene transcription enables development and homeostasis in all animals and is regulated by two major classes of distal cis-regulatory DNA elements (CREs), enhancers and silencers. While enhancers have been thoroughly characterized, the properties and mechansisms of silencers remain largely unknown. By an unbiased genome-wide functional screen in Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells, we discover a class of silencers that bind one of three transcription factors (TFs) and are generally not included in chromatin-defined CRE catalogs, as they mostly lack detectable DNA accessibility. The silencer-binding TF CG11247, which we term Saft, safeguards cell fate decisions in vivo and functions via a highly-conserved domain we term ZAC and the corepressor G9a, independently of G9a’s H3K9-methyltransferase activity. Overall, our identification of silencers with unexpected properties and mechanisms has important implications for the understanding and future study of repressive CREs, as well as the functional annotation of animal genomes.
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Project description:Both upregulation and downregulation by cis-regulatory elements help establish precise gene expression. Our understanding of how elements repress transcriptional activity is far more limited than activating elements. To address this gap, we characterized RE1, a group of transcriptional silencers bound by REST, on a genome-wide scale using an optimized massively parallel reporter assay (MPRAduo). MPRAduo empirically defined a minimal binding strength of REST required by silencer (REST m-value), above which multiple cofactors colocalize and act to directly silence transcription. We identified 1,500 human variants that alter RE1 silencing and found their effect sizes are predictable when they overlap with REST binding sites above the m-value. In addition, we demonstrate that non-canonical REST binding motifs exhibit silencer function only if they precisely align two half sites with specific spacer length. Our results show mechanistic insights into RE1 silencer which allows us to predict its activity and effect of variants on RE1, providing a paradigm for performing genome-wide functional characterization transcription factors binding sites.
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Project description:Human silencers have been shown to regulate developmental gene expression. However, the functional importance of human silencers needs to be elucidated, such as whether they can form ‘super-silencers’ and whether they are linked to cancer progression. Here, we show two silencer components of the FGF18 gene can cooperate through compensatory chromatin interactions to form a super-silencer. Double knockout of two silencers exhibited synergistic upregulation of FGF18 expression and changes in cell identity. To perturb the super-silencers, we applied combinational treatment of an enhancer of zeste homolog 2 inhibitor GSK343, and a repressor element 1-silencing transcription factor inhibitor, X5050 (‘GR’). Interestingly, GR led to severe loss of topologically associated domains and loops, which were associated with reduced CTCF and TOP2A mRNA levels. Moreover, GR synergistically upregulated super-silencer-controlled genes related to cell cycle, apoptosis and DNA damage, leading to anticancer effects in vivo. Overall, our data demonstrated a super-silencer example and showed that GR can disrupt super-silencers, potentially leading to cancer ablation.
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