Project description:Developmental gene expression results from the orchestrated interplay between genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Here, we describe upSET, a transcriptional regulator encoding a SET domaincontaining protein recruited to active and inducible genes in Drosophila. However, unlike other Drosophila SET proteins associated with gene transcription, UpSET is part of an Rpd3/Sin3-containing complex that restricts chromatin accessibility and histone acetylation to promoter regions. In the absence of UpSET, active chromatin marks and chromatin accessibility increase and spread to genic and flanking regions due to destabilization of the histone deacetylase complex. Consistent with this, transcriptional noise increases, as manifest by activation of repetitive elements and off-target genes. Interestingly, upSET mutant flies are female sterile due to upregulation of key components of Notch signaling during oogenesis. Thus UpSET defines a class of metazoan transcriptional regulators required to fine tune transcription by preventing the spread of active chromatin. For determining DamID based UpSET chromatin profile, three biological replicates were used. For evaluating chromatin accessibility, two biological replicates were performed.
Project description:Here we map the localization of H3K27me3 in Drosophila Kc cells, as well as in Drosophila Kc cells wherein dCTCF is knock down. examination of genomic occupancy for H3K27me3, control samples used for Drosophila Kc were previously described (Wood, Van Bortle et al., 2011 GSE30740)
Project description:Transcriptional changes assayed with two bilogical replicates in wild type and RNAi mediated insulator knock-downs RNAi mediated insulator knock-downs cause changes in the H3K27me3 levels and spread of Topoisomerase II In order to understand the role of insulators in gene expression and regulation we used Drosophila Kc cells to knock-down single and multiple insulators in combination to assay for transcriptional changes.
