Project description:We report the genome-wide analysis from chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA (ChIP-sequencing) at very high resolution of the DNA binding pattern of ParBF (SopB) either on the full length plasmid F or on E. coli chromosome carrying the parSF centromere sequence. We also varied the intracellular ParBF concentration to discriminate between the several proposed mechanism of partition complexes assembly.
Project description:We used an approach combining PacBio data and published Illumina reads to de novo assemble D. busckii contigs. We generated Hi-C data from D. busckii embryos to order these contigs into chromosome-length scaffolds. For D. virilis we generated Hi-C data to order and orient the published Dvir_caf1 scaffolds into chromosome-length assemblies. Furthermore, we compared Hi-C matrices from these two new assemblies with D. melanogaster with respect to synteny blocks and dosage compensation as a chromosome-wide gene-regulatory mechanism.
Project description:Nanopore Sequencing and assembly of Col-0 carrying seed coat expressed GFP and RFP transgenes flanking the centromere of chromosome 3 (CTL 3.9) - additionally, DNA methylation was derived using deepsignal-plant using these reads.
Project description:Condensin drives mitotic chromosome assembly by folding chromatin into loops and is enriched in the vicinity of highly expressed genes, but the significance of such proximity with respect to condensin activity has remained unclear. Here, by modulating the occupancy of RNA Pol II in vivo, we show that transcription plays no role in the steady state association of condensin with DNA. Rather, transcription stalls and even displaces condensin, hindering its ability to fold chromatin and to support chromosome segregation. Our results highlight a key aspect of the integrated functioning of condensin and suggest that a tight control of transcription underlies mitotic chromosome assembly.