The Ubx Polycomb response element bypasses an unpaired Fab-8 insulator via cis transvection in Drosophila | |
Erlin Wang1,6; Yunshuang Ye1,6; Yue Zhang1; Vikrant Singh4; Sheryl Smith4; Yu Xiao1; Jumin Zhou1; Guijun Chen1; Deying Yang1; Liping Yang1 | |
刊名 | PLOS ONE |
2018 | |
卷号 | 13期号:6页码:e0199353 |
DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0199353 |
英文摘要 | Chromatin insulators or boundary elements protect genes from regulatory activities fromneighboring genes or chromatin domains. In the Drosophila Abdominal-B (Abd-B) locus, thedeletion of such elements, such as Frontabdominal-7 (Fab-7) or Fab-8 led to dominant gainof function phenotypes, presumably due to the loss of chromatin barriers. Homologous chro-mosomes are paired in Drosophila, creating a number of pairing dependent phenomenaincluding transvection, and whether transvection may affect the function of Polycombresponse elements (PREs) and thus contribute to the phenotypes are not known. Here, westudied the chromatin barrier activity of Fab-8 and how it is affected by the zygosity of thetransgene, and found that Fab-8 is able to block the silencing effect of the Ubx PRE on theDsRed reporter gene in a CTCF binding sites dependent manner. However, the blockingalso depends on the zygosity of the transgene in that the barrier activity is present when thetransgene is homozygous, but absent when the transgene is heterozygous. To analyze thiseffect, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation and quantitative PCR (ChIP-qPCR)experiments on homozygous transgenic embryos, and found that H3K27me3 andH3K9me3 marks are restricted by Fab-8, but they spread beyond Fab-8 into the DsRedgene when the two CTCF binding sites within Fab-8 were mutated. Consistent with this, themutation reduced H3K4me3 and RNA Pol II binding to the DsRed gene, and consequently,DsRed expression. Importantly, in heterozygous embryos, Fab-8 is unable to prevent thespread of H3K27me3 and H3K9me3 marks from crossing Fab-8 into DsRed, suggesting aninsulator bypass. These results suggest that in the Abd-B locus, deletion of the insulator inone copy of the chromosome could lead to the loss of insulator activity on the homologouschromosome, and in other loci where chromosomal deletion created hemizygous regions ofthe genome, the chromatin barrier could be compromised. This study highlights a role ofhomologous chromosome pairing in the regulation of gene expression in the Drosophilagenome. |
语种 | 英语 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://159.226.149.26:8080/handle/152453/12304] |
专题 | 昆明动物研究所_基因调控与表达遗传 |
通讯作者 | Jumin Zhou |
作者单位 | 1.Key Laboratory of bioactive peptides of Yunnan Province/ Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academyof Sciences, Kunming, China, 2.Graduate School, University of Chinese Academyof Sciences, Beijing, China 3.Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America 4.Gene Expression and Regulation Program, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America 5.State Key Laboratory of Bio-control, Institute of Entomology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 6.Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Erlin Wang,Yunshuang Ye,Yue Zhang,et al. The Ubx Polycomb response element bypasses an unpaired Fab-8 insulator via cis transvection in Drosophila[J]. PLOS ONE,2018,13(6):e0199353. |
APA | Erlin Wang.,Yunshuang Ye.,Yue Zhang.,Vikrant Singh.,Sheryl Smith.,...&Wei Zhang.(2018).The Ubx Polycomb response element bypasses an unpaired Fab-8 insulator via cis transvection in Drosophila.PLOS ONE,13(6),e0199353. |
MLA | Erlin Wang,et al."The Ubx Polycomb response element bypasses an unpaired Fab-8 insulator via cis transvection in Drosophila".PLOS ONE 13.6(2018):e0199353. |
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