The histone modification pattern of active genes revealed through genome-wide chromatin analysis of a higher eukaryote
Dirk Schübeler,David M. MacAlpine,David Scalzo,Christiane Wirbelauer,Charles Kooperberg,Fred van Leeuwen,Daniel E. Gottschling,Laura P. O'Neill,Bryan M. Turner,Jeffrey J. Delrow,Stephen P. Bell,Mark Groudine +11 more
TLDR
A genome-wide chromatin structure analysis in a higher eukaryote found a binary pattern of histone modifications among euchromatic genes, with active genes being hyperacetylated for H3 and H4 and hypermethylated at Lys 4 and Lys 79 of H3, and inactive genes being hypomethylated and deacetylation at the same residues.Abstract:
The covalent modification of nucleosomal histones has emerged as a major determinant of chromatin structure and gene activity. To understand the interplay between various histone modifications, including acetylation and methylation, we performed a genome-wide chromatin structure analysis in a higher eukaryote. We found a binary pattern of histone modifications among euchromatic genes, with active genes being hyperacetylated for H3 and H4 and hypermethylated at Lys 4 and Lys 79 of H3, and inactive genes being hypomethylated and deacetylated at the same residues. Furthermore, the degree of modification correlates with the level of transcription, and modifications are largely restricted to transcribed regions, suggesting that their regulation is tightly linked to polymerase activity.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
High-resolution profiling of histone methylations in the human genome.
Artem Barski,Suresh Cuddapah,Kairong Cui,Tae-Young Roh,Dustin E. Schones,Zhibin Wang,Gang Wei,Iouri Chepelev,Keji Zhao +8 more
TL;DR: High-resolution maps for the genome-wide distribution of 20 histone lysine and arginine methylations as well as histone variant H2A.Z, RNA polymerase II, and the insulator binding protein CTCF across the human genome using the Solexa 1G sequencing technology are generated.
Journal ArticleDOI
Distribution, silencing potential and evolutionary impact of promoter DNA methylation in the human genome.
Michael Weber,Ines Hellmann,Michael B. Stadler,Liliana Ramos,Svante Pääbo,Michael Rebhan,Dirk Schübeler +6 more
TL;DR: Results show that promoter sequence and gene function are major predictors of promoter methylation states and that inactive unmethylated CpG island promoters show elevated levels of dimethylation of Lys4 of histone H3, suggesting that this chromatin mark may protect DNA from methylation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Cancer epigenomics: DNA methylomes and histone-modification maps
TL;DR: It is time to 'upgrade' cancer epigenetics research and put together an ambitious plan to tackle the many unanswered questions in this field using epigenomics approaches.
Journal ArticleDOI
The mammalian epigenome.
TL;DR: Current research efforts are reviewed, with an emphasis on large-scale studies, emerging technologies, and challenges ahead.
Journal ArticleDOI
The diverse functions of histone lysine methylation.
Cyrus Martin,Yi Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: Recent advances in understanding of how lysine methylation functions in these diverse biological processes are summarized, and questions that need to be addressed in the future are raised.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The language of covalent histone modifications.
Brian D. Strahl,C D Allis +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that distinct histone modifications, on one or more tails, act sequentially or in combination to form a ‘histone code’ that is, read by other proteins to bring about distinct downstream events.
Journal ArticleDOI
The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster
Mark Raymond Adams,Susan E. Celniker,Robert A. Holt,Cheryl A. Evans,Jeannine D. Gocayne,Peter Amanatides,Steve Scherer,Peter W. Li,Roger A. Hoskins,R. Galle,Reed A. George,Suzanna E. Lewis,Stephen Richards,Michael Ashburner,Scott Henderson,Granger G. Sutton,Jennifer R. Wortman,Mark Yandell,Qing Zhang,Lin Chen,Rhonda C. Brandon,Yu-Hui Rogers,R. Blazej,Mark Champe,Barret D. Pfeiffer,Kenneth H. Wan,Colleen Doyle,E. G. Baxter,Gregg Helt,Catherine R. Nelson,G. L. Gabor Miklos,Josep F. Abril,A. Agbayani,Huijin An,C. Andrews-Pfannkoch,Danita Baldwin,Richard M. Ballew,Anand Basu,James Baxendale,Leyla Bayraktaroglu,Ellen M. Beasley,Karen Beeson,Panayiotis V. Benos,Benjamin P. Berman,D. Bhandari,Slava Bolshakov,Dana Borkova,Michael R. Botchan,John Bouck,Peter Brokstein,Philippe Brottier,Kenneth C. Burtis,Dana A. Busam,Heather Butler,Edouard Cadieu,I. Chandra,J. Michael Cherry,Simon Cawley,Carl Dahlke,Lionel Davenport,P. Davies,B. de Pablos,Arthur L. Delcher,Zuoming Deng,A. Deslattes Mays,Ian M. Dew,Susanne Dietz,Kristina Dodson,Lisa Doup,Michael Downes,Shannon Dugan-Rocha,B. C. Dunkov,Patrick J. Dunn,K. J. Durbin,Carlos Evangelista,Concepcion Ferraz,Steven Ferriera,Wolfgang Fleischmann,Carl Fosler,Andrei Gabrielian,Neha Garg,William M. Gelbart,Kenneth Glasser,A. Glodek,Fangcheng Gong,J. Harley Gorrell,Zhiping Gu,Ping Guan,Michael Harris,Nomi L. Harris,Damon A. Harvey,Thomas J. Heiman,Judith Hernandez,Jarrett Houck,Damon Hostin,K. Houston,Timothy Howland,Ming-Hui Wei,Chinyere Ibegwam,M. Jalali,Francis Kalush,Gary H. Karpen,Zhaoxi Ke,James A. Kennison,K. A. Ketchum,B. E. Kimmel,Chinnappa D. Kodira,Cheryl L. Kraft,Saul A. Kravitz,David Kulp,Zhongwu Lai,Paul Lasko,Yiding Lei,Alexander Levitsky,Jun Li,Zhenya Li,Yunye Liang,Xiaoying Lin,Xiangjun Liu,B. Mattei,Tina C. McIntosh,Michael P. McLeod,D. McPherson,Gennady V. Merkulov,Natalia Milshina,Clark M. Mobarry,J. Morris,A. Moshrefi,Stephen M. Mount,Mee Moy,Brian Murphy,Lee Murphy,Donna M. Muzny,David L. Nelson,David R. Nelson,Keith Nelson,K. Nixon,Deborah R. Nusskern,Joanne Pacleb,Michael J. Palazzolo,G. S. Pittman,Sue Pan,J. Pollard,Vinita Puri,Martin G. Reese,Knut Reinert,Karin A. Remington,Robert D. C. Saunders,Robert D. C. Saunders,F. Scheeler,H. Shen,B. Christopher Shue,Inga Siden-Kiamos,Michael Simpson,Marian P. Skupski,Thomas J. Smith,Eugene G. Spier,Allan C. Spradling,Mark Stapleton,Renee Strong,E. Sun,Robert Svirskas,C. Tector,Russell Turner,Eli Venter,Aihui Wang,Xianyuan Wang,Zhen Yuan Wang,David A. Wassarman,George M. Weinstock,Jean Weissenbach,Sherita Williams,Trevor Woodage,Kim C. Worley,D. Wu,Shih-Hung Yang,Q. Alison Yao,Jane Ye,R. F. Yeh,Jayshree Zaveri,Ming Zhan,Gefei Zhang,Qi Zhao,Liansheng Zheng,Xiangqun Zheng,Fei Zhong,Wenyan Zhong,X. Zhou,Shiaoping C. Zhu,Xiancan Zhu,Hamilton O. Smith,Richard A. Gibbs,Eugene W. Myers,Gerald M. Rubin,J. Craig Venter +194 more
TL;DR: The nucleotide sequence of nearly all of the approximately 120-megabase euchromatic portion of the Drosophila genome is determined using a whole-genome shotgun sequencing strategy supported by extensive clone-based sequence and a high-quality bacterial artificial chromosome physical map.
Journal ArticleDOI
Active genes are tri-methylated at K4 of histone H3
Helena Santos-Rosa,Robert Schneider,Andrew J. Bannister,Julia A. Sherriff,Bradley E. Bernstein,N. C. Tolga Emre,Stuart L. Schreiber,Jane Mellor,Tony Kouzarides +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1 protein can catalyse di- and tri-methylation of K4 and stimulate the activity of many genes, establishing the concept of methyl status as a determinant for gene activity and extending considerably the complexity of histone modifications.
Journal ArticleDOI
Chromosomal subunits in active genes have an altered conformation
Harold Weintraub,Mark Groudine +1 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that active genes are probably associated with histones in a subunit conformation in which the associated DNA is particularly sensitive to digestion by deoxyribonuclease I.
Journal ArticleDOI
Transcription regulation by histone methylation: interplay between different covalent modifications of the core histone tails
Yi Zhang,Danny Reinberg +1 more
TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about the “building blocks” of EMT and its role in cancer progression.