Project description:The conserved Notch pathway functions in diverse developmental and disease-related processes, requiring mechanisms to ensure appropriate target-selection and gene activation in each context. To investigate, we partitioned Drosophila chromatin into different states, based on histone modifications, establishing the preferred chromatin conditions for binding of CSL, the Notch pathway transcription factor. While most histone modifications were unchanged by CSL binding or Notch activation, rapid changes in H3K56 acetylation occurred at Notch regulated-enhancers. This modification extended over large regions, required the histone acetyl-transferase CBP and was independent of transcription. Such rapid changes in H3K56 acetylation are a conserved indicator of enhancer activation, also occurring at mammalian Notch-regulated Hey1 and at Drosophila ecdysone-regulated genes. This core histone modification may therefore underpin the changes in chromatin accessibility needed to promote transcription following signaling activation. H3K56ac profile of BG3 cells in control condition and EGTA treated condition. In total 4 samples, 2 replicates of H3K56ac ChIP in hbss condition and 2 replicates of H3K56ac ChIP in EGTA treated BG3 cells.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Drosophila melanogaster 2nd chromosome substitution lines; Background chromosomes are identical across lines; 2nd chromosomes are different across line and can be homozygous or heterozygous within each line Keywords: Natural variation
