Genome-wide nucleosome specificity and function of chromatin remodellers in ES cells.
Maud de Dieuleveult, Kuangyu Yen, Isabelle Hmitou, Arnaud Depaux, Fayçal Boussouar, Daria Bou Dargham, Sylvie Jounier, Hélène Humbertclaude, Florence Ribierre, Céline Baulard, Nina P Farrell, Bongsoo Park, Céline Keime, Lucie Carrière, Soizick Berlivet, Marta Gut, Ivo Gut, Michel Werner, Jean-François Deleuze, Robert Olaso, Jean-Christophe Aude, Sophie Chantalat, B Franklin Pugh, Matthieu Gérard
Nature 2016 Feb 04ATP-dependent chromatin remodellers allow access to DNA for transcription factors and the general transcription machinery, but whether mammalian chromatin remodellers target specific nucleosomes to regulate transcription is unclear. Here we present genome-wide remodeller-nucleosome interaction profiles for the chromatin remodellers Chd1, Chd2, Chd4, Chd6, Chd8, Chd9, Brg1 and Ep400 in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. These remodellers bind one or both full nucleosomes that flank micrococcal nuclease (MNase)-defined nucleosome-free promoter regions (NFRs), where they separate divergent transcription. Surprisingly, large CpG-rich NFRs that extend downstream of annotated transcriptional start sites are nevertheless bound by non-nucleosomal or subnucleosomal histone variants (H3.3 and H2A.Z) and marked by H3K4me3 and H3K27ac modifications. RNA polymerase II therefore navigates hundreds of base pairs of altered chromatin in the sense direction before encountering an MNase-resistant nucleosome at the 3' end of the NFR. Transcriptome analysis after remodeller depletion reveals reciprocal mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by remodellers. Whereas at active genes individual remodellers have either positive or negative roles via altering nucleosome stability, at polycomb-enriched bivalent genes the same remodellers act in an opposite manner. These findings indicate that remodellers target specific nucleosomes at the edge of NFRs, where they regulate ES cell transcriptional programs.
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Maud de Dieuleveult, Kuangyu Yen, Isabelle Hmitou, Arnaud Depaux, Fayçal Boussouar, Daria Bou Dargham, Sylvie Jounier, Hélène Humbertclaude, Florence Ribierre, Céline Baulard, Nina P Farrell, Bongsoo Park, Céline Keime, Lucie Carrière, Soizick Berlivet, Marta Gut, Ivo Gut, Michel Werner, Jean-François Deleuze, Robert Olaso, Jean-Christophe Aude, Sophie Chantalat, B Franklin Pugh, Matthieu Gérard. Genome-wide nucleosome specificity and function of chromatin remodellers in ES cells. Nature. 2016 Feb 04;530(7588):113-6
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