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Heavy transcription of yeast genes correlates with differential loss of histone H2B relative to H4 and queued RNA polymerases

Artículo

Autoría
Hope A Cole ; OCAMPO, JOSEFINA ; James R Iben ; Razvan V Chereji ; David J Clark
Fecha
2014
Editorial y Lugar de Edición
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Revista
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, vol. 42 (pp. 12512-12522) OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Resumen Información suministrada por el agente en SIGEVA
Eukaryotic chromatin is composed of nucleosomes, which contain nearly two coils of DNA wrapped around a central histone octamer. The octamer contains an H3-H4 tetramer and two H2A-H2B dimers. Gene activation is associated with chromatin disruption: a wider nucleosome-depleted region (NDR) at the promoter and reduced nucleosome occupancy over the coding region. Here, we examine the nature of disrupted chromatin after induction, using MNase-seq to map nucleosomes and subnucleosomes, and a refined... Eukaryotic chromatin is composed of nucleosomes, which contain nearly two coils of DNA wrapped around a central histone octamer. The octamer contains an H3-H4 tetramer and two H2A-H2B dimers. Gene activation is associated with chromatin disruption: a wider nucleosome-depleted region (NDR) at the promoter and reduced nucleosome occupancy over the coding region. Here, we examine the nature of disrupted chromatin after induction, using MNase-seq to map nucleosomes and subnucleosomes, and a refined high resolution ChIP-seq method to map H4, H2B and RNA polymerase II (Pol II) genome-wide. Over coding regions, induced genes show a differential loss of H2B relative to H4, which correlates with Pol II density and the appearance of sub- nucleosomes. After induction, Pol II is surprisingly low at the promoter, but accumulates on the gene and downstream of the termination site, implying that dissociation is very slow. Thus, induction-dependent chromatin disruption reflects both eviction of H2A- H2B dimers and the presence of queued Pol II elongation complexes. We propose that slow Pol II dissociation after transcription is a major factor in chromatin disruption and that it may be of critical importance in gene regulation.
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NUCLEOSOMETRANSCRIPTIONRNA POL II DISOCIATIONSUB-NUCLEOSOME