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Architectural Mediator subunits are differentially essential for global transcription in yeast (RNA-seq/4tU-seq ; Med14-Med17-doubleAID)

ABSTRACT: This project aims to understand the function of Mediator and the interplay in transcription in S. cerevisiae. Thus we analyzed total and newly synthesized RNA levels in a conditional Med14 and Med17 depletion strain. For this purpose we used an auxin inducible degron system system to specifically induce the degradation Med14 and Med17 by addition of auxin into the culture medium. We measured transcript levels after 30 min auxin or DMSO (control) treatment induction of degradation of Med14 and Med17 by the addition of auxin (30 min) or with the carrier DMSO (control) followed by a 6 min labelling of newly synthesized RNA with 4-thiouracil (4tU). In parallel wiltype S.pombe cells were labelled with 4tU for 6min during midlog growth phase. Prior to RNA extraction (Ribopure Yeast Kit, Ambion) our labelled S.cerevisiae cells of interest were mixed with labelled S.pombe cells as a spike to allow normalization against an exogenous reference (ratio 3 S .cerevisiae for 1 S.pombe cell. From the total RNA we purified the 4tU labelled fraction of RNAs containing 4tU. Both the total RNA and the purified newly synthesized RNAs will then be subject to RNA-sequencing after ribosomal RNA depletion. In summary, we will provide 8 samples for this project containing RNA from both S.cerevisiae and S.pombe. The sample read counts were normalized with size factors computed by the median-of-ratios method proposed by Anders and Huber (Anders et al. 2010) on S. pombe genes to make these counts comparable between samples.

ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae Schizosaccharomyces pombe

PROVIDER: GSE146321 | GEO | 2020/03/04

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The precise regulation of transcription requires the coordinated activity of numerous proteins and protein complexes. Although significant progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms that regulate transcription, many questions remain unresolved. Accurately defining the direct effects of transcriptional regulators is critical to addressing these questions. An effective approach for identifying the direct targets of transcriptional regulators is combining rapid protein depletion and quantification of newly synthesized RNA. The auxin-inducible degron (AID) system and thiol (SH)-linked alkylation for the metabolic sequencing of RNA (SLAM-seq) are powerful methods to rapidly degrade a target protein and directly quantify newly synthesized RNA, respectively. Both methods have been widely applied to study transcriptional regulation. To address unresolved questions in transcription, we assembled an end-to-end workflow to deplete proteins of interest using the AID system and measure newly synthesized RNA using SLAM-seq in the model eukaryote, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We provide an open-source, step-by-step protocol to support rapid implementation of this workflow. We include methods for targeted protein degradation, 4-thiouracil (4tU) incorporation, rapid methanol fixation, RNA purification, RNA alkylation, mRNA-seq library construction, and data analysis. Additionally, we demonstrate that this workflow can help define the direct effects of transcriptional regulators using the bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) proteins, Bdf1 and Bdf2, as an example. We provide evidence that data generated using this workflow is robust to normalization using whole-cell spike-in or total read counts, correlates well with 4tU-seq data, and identifies extensive differential expression due to the depletion of Bdf1 and Bdf2. Taken together, this workflow will help address outstanding questions underlying the molecular basis of transcriptional regulation and other processes in S. cerevisiae and other eukaryotes.

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Architectural Mediator subunits are differentially essential for global transcription in yeast (RNA-seq/4tU-seq ; Med14-Med17-doubleAID)

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