Meiotic cohesin, chromatin and expression profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana floral buds from wild type and non-CG DNA methylation/H3K9me2 pathway mutant plants (ChIP-seq)
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ABSTRACT: We generated and sequenced ChIP libraries for the meiotic cohesin subunit REC8 and four histone modifications (H3K4me1, H3K4me2, H3K9me2 and H3K27me1) to investigate their relationships with meiotic chromosome architecture and recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana. REC8 and H3K9me2 ChIP-seq were performed using meiotic-stage floral buds from wild type (Col-0) and non-CG DNA methylation/H3K9me2 pathway mutant (kyp/suvh4 suvh5 suvh6 or cmt3) plants to examine the role of heterochromatin assembly in meiotic cohesin distribution.
Project description:We performed ChIP-seq for the meiotic strand exchange protein DMC1, which marks an early stage in the meiotic recombination pathway, and the chromosome axis protein ASY1, which promotes interhomolog synapsis and recombination in plants, using tissue collected from immature pre-emergence spikes from wild type bread wheat cultivar Chinese Spring plants. To investigate connections between meiotic recombination and chromatin states in wheat, we also performed ChIP-seq for euchromatic (H3K4me3) and constitutive heterochromatic (H3K9me2 and H3K27me1) marks, and mapped genome-wide nucleosome occupancy via micrococcal nuclease sequencing (MNase-seq) using leaf tissue from Chinese Spring.
Project description:ChIP-seq of ASY1 was carried out on meiotic-stage floral buds of Arabidopsis using an a-ASY1 antibody. The experiment aims to determine the genome-wide profile of ASY1. ASY1 is a component of the chromosome axis and is expressed exclusively during meiosis. Two negative controls were used to test the specificity of the ChIP experiment. First, ChIP-seq using the pre-immune on floral buds was carried out. Second, ChIP-seq using an a-ASY1 antibody was performed on leaf tissue where ASY1 is not expressed.
Project description:We performed ChIP-seq for the meiotic strand exchange protein DMC1, which marks an early stage in the meiotic recombination pathway, and the chromosome axis protein ASY1, which promotes interhomolog synapsis and recombination in plants, using tissue collected from immature pre-emergence spikes from wild type bread wheat cultivar Chinese Spring plants. To investigate connections between meiotic recombination and chromatin states in wheat, we also performed ChIP-seq for euchromatic (H3K4me3) and constitutive heterochromatic (H3K9me2 and H3K27me1) marks, and mapped genome-wide nucleosome occupancy via micrococcal nuclease sequencing (MNase-seq) using leaf tissue from Chinese Spring.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE37027: Cell type-specific gene expression profiling of Drosophila neurons [RNA-Seq] GSE37032: Cell type-specific chromatin profiling of Drosophila neurons [ChIP-Seq] Refer to individual Series
Project description:To investigate the impact of disruption of the non-CG DNA methylation/H3K9me2 pathway upon transcription in Arabidopsis, we performed RNA-seq using meiotic-stage floral buds from wild type (Col-0) and kyp/suvh4 suvh5 suvh6 mutant plants. This enabled identification of differentially expressed genes and transposable elements (TEs). TEs that were up-regulated in kyp/suvh4 suvh5 suvh6 relative to wild type were evaluated for over-representation of elements within each TE family.
Project description:Chromatin profiling of nuclei isolated from genetically defined neuronal subpopulations of the adult Drosophila brain. Cell type-specific histone modification maps were generated from nuclei isolated from all neurons (R57C10-GAL4), Kenyon cells (OK107-GAL4), and octopaminergic (Tdc2-GAL4) neurons using a method similar to INTACT (Deal and Henikoff, 2010; Steinner et al., 2012). Three histone modifications were profiled: H3K4me3, H3K27ac, and H3K27me3. Sequencing was performed with an Illumina HiSeq 2000.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of nuclei isolated from genetically defined neuronal subpopulations of the adult Drosophila brain. Gene expression profiles were generated from nuclei isolated from all neurons (R57C10-GAL4), Kenyon cells (OK107-GAL4), and octopaminergic (Tdc2-GAL4) neurons in the adult Drosophila head using a method similar to INTACT (Deal and Henikoff, 2010; Steinner et al., 2012). Sequencing was performed with an Illumina HiSeq 2000.
Project description:The Photo-Activatable Ribonucleoside-enhanced CrossLinking and ImmunoPrecipitation (PAR-CLIP) method was recently developed for global identification of RNAs interacting with proteins. The strength of this versatile method results from induction of specific T to C transitions at sites of interaction. However, current analytical tools do not distinguish between non-experimentally and experimentally induced transitions. Furthermore, geometric properties at potential binding sites are not taken into account. To surmount these shortcomings, we developed a two-step algorithm consisting of a non-parametric two-component mixture model and a wavelet-based peak calling procedure. Our algorithm can reduce the number of false positives up to 24% thereby identifying high confidence interaction sites. We successfully employed this approach in conjunction with a modified PAR-CLIP protocol to study the functional role of nuclear MOV10, a putative RNA helicase interacting with Argonaute2 and Polycomb. Our method, available as the R package wavClusteR, is generally applicable to any substitution-based inference problem in genomics. The data comprises one MOV10 PAR-CLIP data file and one nuclear RNA-seq file
Project description:The PAF complex (Paf1C) has been shown to regulate chromatin modifications, gene transcription, and PolII elongation. Here, we provide the first genome-wide analysis of chromatin occupancy by the entire PAF complex in mammalian cells. We show that Paf1C is recruited not only to promoters and gene bodies, but also to regions downstream of cleavage/polyadenylation (pA) sites at 3â ends, a profile that sharply contrasted with the yeast complex. Remarkably, our studies identified novel, subunit-specific links between Paf1C and regulation of alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA) and upstream antisense transcription. Moreover, we found that depletion of Paf1C subunits also resulted in the accumulation of RNA polymerase II (PolII) over gene bodies, which coincided with APA. Depletion of specific Paf1C subunits leads to global loss of histone H2B ubiquitylation, but surprisingly, there is little impact of Paf1C depletion on other histone modifications, including the tri-methylation of histone H3 on lysines 4 and 36 (H3K4me3 and H3K36me3), previously associated with this complex. Our results provide surprising differences with yeast, while unifying observations that link Paf1C with PolII elongation and RNA processing, and suggest that Paf1C could play a role in protecting transcripts from premature cleavage by preventing PolII accumulation at TSS-proximal pA sites. ChIP-seq, RNA-seq and 3'READS of Paf1C factors in mouse C2C12 myoblast cells