Polycomb Group proteins are retained at specific sites on chromatin in mitosis

ABSTRACT: Epigenetic regulation of gene expression, including by Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins, may depend on heritable chromatin states but how these states can be propagated through mitosis is unclear. Using immunofluorescence and biochemical fractionation, we find PcG proteins associated with mitotic chromosomes in Drosophila S2 cells. Genome-wide sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitations (ChIP-SEQ) from mitotic cells indicates that Posterior Sex Combs (PSC) and Polyhomeotic (PH) are not present at well-characterized PcG targets including Hox genes in mitosis, but do remain at 11% of their interphase sites. 26% of interphase PSC sites overlap with recently described chromatin domain borders (Sexton et al., 2012), which are genomic regions characterized by low levels of long range contacts.

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster

SUBMITTER: Nicole Follmer 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-38166 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress