Project description:Previous studies suggested that MeCP2 binds to linker DNA and competes with linker histone H1 to regulate chromatin structure, but this hypothesis has never been tested in vivo. Here, we expressed Flag-tagged H1.0 in forebrain excitatory neurons in mice and performed ChIP-Seq to reveal H1.0 distribution and its relationship with MeCP2. Unexpectedly, we detected no major change in H1.0 upon MeCP2 depletion, revealing that MeCP2 functions independent of linker H1.0.
Project description:Previous studies suggested that MeCP2 binds to linker DNA and competes with linker histone H1 to regulate chromatin structure, but this hypothesis has never been tested in vivo. Here, we expressed Flag-tagged H1.0 in forebrain excitatory neurons in mice and performed ChIP-Seq to reveal H1.0 distribution and its relationship with MeCP2. Unexpectedly, we detected no major change in H1.0 upon MeCP2 depletion, revealing that MeCP2 functions independent of linker H1.0.
Project description:We report genome-wide distribution of germ cell-specific linker histone variant H1T in cancer cell line AGS, MDA-MB-231, and mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). We found that H1T expressed not only testis but also non-germ cells such as cancer cells and pluripotent stem cells and showed the biased distribution at rDNA repeat unit. Moreover, on the rDNA region, H1T regulated the chromatin structure and pre-rRNA expression. This study using ChIP-seq analysis provides genomic distribution of H1T in non-germinal cells. ChIP-seq analysis of linker histone H1T in AGS, MDA-MB-231 and mESCs
Project description:At least six histone H1 variants exist in mammalian somatic cells that bind to the linker DNA and stabilize the nucleosome particle contributing to higher order chromatin compaction. In addition, H1 seems to be involved in the active regulation of gene expression. It is not well known whether the different variants have specific roles, are distributed differentially along the genome, or regulate specific promoters. By taking advantage of specific antibodies to H1 variants and HA-tagged recombinant H1 variants expressed in a breast cancer-derived cell line, we have investigated the distribution of the different somatic H1 variants (H1.2 to H1.5, H1.0 and H1X) in particular promoters and genome-wide. Genome-wide analysis of H1.0, H1.2, H1.4, H1X and H3
Project description:At least six histone H1 variants exist in mammalian somatic cells that bind to the linker DNA and stabilize the nucleosome particle contributing to higher order chromatin compaction. In addition, H1 seems to be involved in the active regulation of gene expression. It is not well known whether the different variants have specific roles, are distributed differentially along the genome, or regulate specific promoters. By taking advantage of specific antibodies to H1 variants and HA-tagged recombinant H1 variants expressed in a breast cancer-derived cell line, we have investigated the distribution of the different somatic H1 variants (H1.2 to H1.5, H1.0 and H1X) in particular promoters and genome-wide. Analysis of H1 (H1.0, H1.2, H1.3, H1.4, H1.5 and H1X) and H3 abundance in promoter regions
Project description:Identification of nucleosome-free, active regulatory regions in in vitro generated CSCs, following the knockdown of the histone linker H1.0
Project description:Identification of enrichment for H3K27ac and H3K27me3 in in vitro generated CSCs, following the knockdown of the histone linker H1.0