Drosophila melanogaster
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PROVIDER: PRJNA97603 | ENA |
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Project description:Cellular memory is maintained at the Drosophila homeotic gene clusters by cis-regulatory elements who mechanism of action is unknown. We have examined chromatin dynamics in the Drosophila genome by measuring histone turnover levels at high resolution. Surprisingly, homeotic gene clusters display characteristic histone turnover profiles with conspicuous peaks at boundaries of cis-regulatory domains superimposed over regions of very low turnover. Peaks of histone turnover precisely correspond to nuclease hypersensitive sites for epigenetic silencing proteins. Our results suggest that epigenetic regulation is facilitated by histone turnover, which maintains continuous accessibility ov cis-regulatory DNA. Keywords: Chromatin affinity-purification on microarray
2007-03-01 | GSE6234 | GEO
Project description:The bithorax complex (BX-C) in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a cluster of homeotic genes that determines the identities the body segments. Expression of these genes is governed by cis-regulatory domains, one for each parasegment, which are arranged on the chromosome in the order of the parasegments they affect. Stable repression of these domains depends on the functions of the Polycomb Group, including its ability to methylate lysine 27 of histone H3. To learn whether PcG proteins generate parasegment-specific chromatin signatures, we have used transgenes to mark and isolate nuclei from single parasegments. These nuclei were profiled for histone modifications and chromatin proteins. The H3K27me3 profiles across the BX-C in successive parasegments show a striking “stairstep” pattern that reveals sharp boundaries of the BX-C regulatory domains. The borders of H3K27me3 modification domains are sharp, and align precisely with binding sites for the CCCTC-binding protein (CTCF). H3K27ac is broadly enriched across active domains, in a pattern complementary to K27me3. These findings provide a molecular definition of the homeotic domains, and implicate precisely localized H3K27 modification as a central determinant of segment identity. Nuclei from single parasegments of the Drosophila embryo were isolated and ChIP-seq performed for H3K27me3, CTCF, H3K27ac, H3K4me3, Ph, Pol2, Pc, and Suz12. For each sample, two biological replicates were performed.
2014-08-14 | E-GEOD-55257 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2012-10-04 | GSE38468 | GEO
Project description:The mechanisms responsible for the establishment of physical domains in metazoan chromosomes are poorly understood. Here we find that physical domains in Drosophila chromosomes are demarcated at regions of active transcription and high gene density that are enriched for transcription factors and specific combinations of insulator proteins. Physical domains contain different types of chromatin defined by the presence of specific proteins and epigenetic marks, with active chromatin preferentially located at the borders and silenced chromatin in the interior. Domain boundaries participate in long-range interactions that may contribute to the clustering of regions of active or silenced chromatin in the nucleus. Analysis of transgenes suggests that chromatin is more accessible and permissive to transcription at the borders than inside domains, independent of the presence of active or silencing histone modifications. These results suggest that the higher-order physical organization of chromatin may impose an additional level of regulation over classical epigenetic marks. We carried out Hi-C experiment using HindIII on Kc167 cells and generate two libraries separately. One library was sequenced once more as technical replicates (TR1 and TR2), the other library was sequenced as biological replicate (BR). processed files contain the following: Column 1: chromosome ID in which the first read in a pair locates Column 2: coordinate of the first read Column 3: chromosome ID in which the second read in a pair locates Column 4: coordinate of the second read
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2014-10-20 | E-GEOD-60428 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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