Title
Chromatin Dynamics and the RNA Exosome Function in Concert to Regulate Transcriptional Homeostasis
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Molecular Medicine; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Publication Date
2015-11-24
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Biochemistry | Molecular Biology | Molecular Genetics
Abstract
The histone variant H2A.Z is a hallmark of nucleosomes flanking promoters of protein-coding genes and is often found in nucleosomes that carry lysine 56-acetylated histone H3 (H3-K56Ac), a mark that promotes replication-independent nucleosome turnover. Here, we find that H3-K56Ac promotes RNA polymerase II occupancy at many protein-coding and noncoding loci, yet neither H3-K56Ac nor H2A.Z has a significant impact on steady-state mRNA levels in yeast. Instead, broad effects of H3-K56Ac or H2A.Z on RNA levels are revealed only in the absence of the nuclear RNA exosome. H2A.Z is also necessary for the expression of divergent, promoter-proximal noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) in mouse embryonic stem cells. Finally, we show that H2A.Z functions with H3-K56Ac to facilitate formation of chromosome interaction domains (CIDs). Our study suggests that H2A.Z and H3-K56Ac work in concert with the RNA exosome to control mRNA and ncRNA expression, perhaps in part by regulating higher-order chromatin structures.
Rights and Permissions
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.celrep.2015.10.030
Source
Cell Rep. 2015 Nov 24;13(8):1610-22. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.10.030. Epub 2015 Nov 12. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cell reports
Related Resources
PubMed ID
26586442
Repository Citation
Rege M, Subramanian V, Zhu C, Hsieh TS, Weiner A, Friedman N, Clauder-Munster S, Steinmetz LM, Rando OJ, Boyer LA, Peterson CL. (2015). Chromatin Dynamics and the RNA Exosome Function in Concert to Regulate Transcriptional Homeostasis. Open Access Articles. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2015.10.030. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/2658
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
First author Mayuri Rege is a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) at UMass Medical School.