Project description:DNA replicates once per cell cycle. Interfering with the regulation of DNA replication initiation generates genome instability through over-replication and has been linked to early stages of cancer development. Here, we engineered genetic systems in budding yeast to induce unscheduled replication in the G1-phase of the cell cycle. Unscheduled G1 replication initiated at canonical S-phase origins across the genome. We quantified differences in replisomes in G1- and S-phase and identified firing factors, polymerase α, and histone supply as factors that limit replication outside S-phase. G1 replication per se did not trigger cellular checkpoints. Subsequent replication during S-phase, however, resulted in over-replication and led to chromosome breaks via head-to-tail replication fork collisions that are marked by chromosome-wide, strand-biased occurrence of RPA-bound single-stranded DNA. Low-level, sporadic induction of G1 replication induced an identical response, indicating findings from synthetic systems are applicable to naturally occurring scenarios of unscheduled replication initiation by G1/S deregulation.
Project description:DNA replicates once per cell cycle. Interfering with the regulation of DNA replication initiation generates genome instability through over-replication and has been linked to early stages of cancer development. Here, we engineered genetic systems in budding yeast to induce unscheduled replication in the G1-phase of the cell cycle. Unscheduled G1 replication initiated at canonical S-phase origins. We quantified the composition of replisomes in G1- and S-phase and identified firing factors, polymerase alpha, and histone supply as factors that limit replication outside S-phase. G1 replication per se did not trigger cellular checkpoints. Subsequent replication during S-phase, however, resulted in over-replication and led to chromosome breaks and chromosome-wide, strand-biased occurrence of RPA-bound single-stranded DNA indicating head-to-tail replication collisions as a key mechanism generating genome instability upon G1 replication. Low-level, sporadic induction of G1 replication induced an identical response, indicating findings from synthetic systems are applicable to naturally occurring scenarios of unscheduled replication initiation.
Project description:Sequencing of mononucleosomal DNA during G1 and S phases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Samples from mononucleosomal DNA from WT and rpd3 mutant strains (W303-1a background) in G1 or in S phase in the presence of 0.2 M HU were sequenced (Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx) using the single-end read protocol
Project description:Chromatin accessibility in the nucleus is a predictor of gene expression, cell division and cell type specificity. NicE-viewSeq (Nicking Enzyme assisted viewing and Sequencing) allows accessible chromatin visualization and sequencing with lower mitochondrial DNA and duplicated sequences compared to ATACsee. Using NicE-viewSeq we interrogated cell cycle G1, S and G2M specific accessible chromatin in mammalian cells. Despite DNA replication and subsequent condensation of chromatin to chromosome, chromatin accessibility remained subtly altered and generally preserved. Genome-wide alteration of accessibility for TSS and enhancer gradually decreased as the cell progressed from G1 to G2M, with distinctive differential accessibility near consensus transcription factors sites. Inhibition of histone deacetylase promoted accessible chromatin of the gene body, correlating with apoptotic gene expression. In addition, reduced chromatin accessibility for MYC oncogene pathway correlated with gene down regulation. Surprisingly, repetitive RNA expression remained unaltered following histone acetylation mediated increased accessibility. Therefore, we suggest that subtle changes in chromatin accessibility is a prerequisite during cell cycle and histone deacetylase inhibitor mediated therapeutics.
Project description:In the budding yeast, HMR, HML, telomere and rDNA domain are known as a silencing region. Sir2 need to make it at rDNA and, HMR, HML and the telomere need to Sir2, Sir3, Sir4 complex to control internal gene repression. In this report, we found a newly Sir3 binding domain, CN domain (Chromosome New region) 1~14, by the ChIP on chip analysis on S.cerevisiae chromosome. In addition, we also performed ChIP on chip analysis with anti-Sir3 antibody using G1 phase synchronized cell to find Sir3 distribution difference of stage of cell cycle and we found CN15~CN25 which was G1 phase specific Sir3 binding region. Furthermore, we analyzed difference of gene expression at CN region in sir3 strain, and some regions did not change level of gene expression. In the conventional report, Sir3 had recruited by Sir2 and Sir4 on chromosome, but recruit of Sir3 was independent on Sir2 and Sir4 at some CN regions. These data suggested that we found a newly Sir3 function and Sir3 recruited system on chromosome.
Project description:Here we apply single cell bisulfite sequencing to detect epigenetic and genetic changes that occur in BRAF V600E cells that escape G1 arrest and return to the cell cycle during treatment with the MEK inhibitor selumetinib. We detect no major changes in DNA methylation, but find that cells in G2 are enriched in large amplifications and deletions that we ascribe to abnormal mitotic chromosome segregation.
Project description:The experiment was designed to look into changes in key transcription factors (TFs) binding sites during cell cycle progression in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). For this, 1 million FUCCI hESCs are sorted in Early G1 (EG1), Late G1 (LG1), and S/G2/M phases in duplicates for each experiment, and chromatin immunoprecipitation was performed for the TFs CTCF, OCT4, NANOG, SOX2, RING1B. Library preparation and sequencing were performed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute next-generation sequencing facility. Size selection was applied, and fragments between 100bp and 400bp (average length of 200bp) were used to prepare barcoded sequencing libraries using NEBNext Sample Prep Kit1 (NEB) following manufacturer’s instructions. Equimolar amounts of each library were pooled, and 10 samples/lane were multiplexed on Illumina HiSeq 2000, 2 X 75bp paired-end reads.
Project description:Chromatin assembled with histone H3 variant CENP-A is the heritable epigenetic determinant of human centromere identity. Using genome-wide mapping and reference models for 23 human centromeres, CENP-A is shown in early G1 to be assembled into nucleosomes within megabase, repetitive a-satellite DNAs at each centromere and onto 11,390 sites on the chromosome arms. Centromere-bound CENP-A is found to be quantitatively maintained during DNA replication by coordinated action of the MCM2 helicase, CAF1, HJURP, and the CCAN network of constitutive centromere components. CCAN serves to tether CENP-A removed by MCM2, thereby enabling local reassembly onto both daughter centromeres with identical DNA sequence preferences and nucleosome phasing as the loading in G1 and independent of CENP-B. Conversely, without CCAN-mediated tethering, DNA replication removes CENP-A from sites on the chromosome arms. Our data identify an MCM2/CAF1/HJURP- and CCAN-dependent error correction mechanism that acts in S-phase to maintain CENP-A-dependent centromere identity.
Project description:We previously demonstrated that inactivation of the replication checkpoint via a mec1 mutation led to chromosome breakage at replication forks initiated from virtually all origins of replication, after transient exposure to hydroxyurea (HU), an inhibitor of ribonucleotide reductase. Furthermore, we have shown that chromosomes break at replication forks that have suffered single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) formation. Here we sought to determine whether all replication forks containing ssDNA gaps have equal probability of producing double strand breaks (DSBs) when cells attempt to recover from HU exposure. We devised a new methodology, Break-Seq, that combines our previously described DSB labeling with NextGen sequencing to map chromosome breaks with improved sensitivity and resolution. We show that DSBs preferentially occur at genes transcriptionally induced by HU. Notably, different subsets of the HU-induced genes produced DSBs in MEC1 and mec1 cells as replication forks traversed greater distance in MEC1 cells than in mec1 cells during the recovery from HU. Specifically, while MEC1 cells exhibited chromosome breakage at stress-response transcription factors, mec1 cells predominantly suffered chromosome breakage at transporter genes, many of which are the substrates of the said transcription factors. We propose that HU-induced chromosome fragility arises at higher frequency near HU-induced genes as a result of destabilized replication forks encountering transcription factor binding and/or the act of transcription. Our model provides an explanation for a long-standing problem in chromosome biology: why different replication inhibitors produce different spectra of chromosome breakage? We propose that different inhibitors elicit different transcription responses as well as destabilize replication forks, and, when the two processes collide, ssDNA at the replication fork suffers further strand breakage, causing DSBs. We queried the yeast genome for gene expression after cells were treated with 200 mM hydroxyurea during S phase. Samples were collected from 1) cells synchronized in G1 phase by alpha factor; 2) cells released from G1 into medium containing 200 mM hydroxyurea for 1 h; 3) cells recovering in fresh medium without hydroxyurea for 30 and 60 min after the 1 h exposure to HU. These samples are referred to as G1, HU 1h, R30, and R60, respectively. The strains from which the samples were collected are indicated before the time point, e.g. mec1_G1 or MEC1_R30. Stranded mRNA libraries were prepared according to manufacturer's suggestion and sequenced on Illumina MiSeq with paired-end reads of 75 bp.