Chromatin immunoprecipitation and RNA-seq analysis in purified quiescent yeast cells to identify the genomic RNA polymerase II and histone H3 methylation occupancy profiles and the quiescent cell transcriptome.

ABSTRACT: A defining characteristic of quiescent cells is their low level of gene activity compared to growing cells. Using a yeast model for cellular quiescence, we compared the genome-wide profiles of multiple histone modifications between growing and quiescent cells, and correlated these profiles with the presence of RNA polymerase II and its transcripts. Quiescent cells retained several forms of histone methylation normally associated with transcriptionally active chromatin and had many transcripts in common with growing cells. Quiescent cells also contained high levels of RNA polymerase II, but only low levels of the canonical initiating and elongating forms of the polymerase. The data suggest that the transcript and histone methylation marks in quiescent cells were either inherited from gro

ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SUBMITTER: Karsten Hokamp 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-72650 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress