超高解像度画像は,異なった表遺伝子状態のための異なった染色体折り合いを明らかにする
Alistair N Boettiger1, Bogdan Bintu1, Jeffrey R Moffitt1
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Nature
|January 14, 2016
まとめ
フルーツフライの細胞の異なる表遺伝子状態は 3Dクロマチンの包装を特徴づけている. ポリコンブ抑制されたクロマチンは,ゲノム調節に影響を与えるユニークな密度の詰め込みと混合を示します.
科学分野:
- ゲノミクス
- エピジェネティクス
- 細胞生物学
背景:
- メタゾアのゲノムは多層の空間的組織を示し,遺伝子の調節に不可欠である.
- クロマチンの3D組織を キロベースからメガベースまで理解することは 難題ですが 遺伝子発現制御には不可欠です
研究 の 目的:
- ドロソフィラ細胞の異なる表遺伝子状態 (活性,非活性,ポリコンブ抑制) における3Dクロマチンの組織を調査する.
- エピジェネティック状態がクロマチンの包装と空間的配置にどのように影響するか解明する.
主な方法:
- ドロソフィラ細胞の超高解像度イメージングで,クロマチンの組織を可視化します.
- ゲノム領域をアクティブ,非アクティブ,またはポリコンブ抑制状態に分類する.
- ポリコンブ群のタンパク質の役割を評価するための計算モデルとノックダウン実験.
主要な成果:
- 活性,非活性,およびポリコンブ抑制ドメインの異なる3Dクロマチン組織が観察されました.
- すべてのドメインタイプはパワー・ロー・スケーリングを示したが,スケーリング指数がユニークであった.
- ポリコンブ抑制ドメインは,最も密度の高い詰め込み,長さとともに密度が増加し,重要なクロマチンの混合を示した.
- ポリコンブ抑制ドメインは,不活性ドメインよりも隣接する活性クロマチンを空間的に排除した.
結論:
- 超高解像度画像は,千塩基からメガ塩基のスケールで表遺伝子状態と相関する異なるクロマチンの包装戦略を明らかにします.
- ポリコンブ群のタンパク質は,抑制されたクロマチンのユニークな包装に不可欠な可逆相互作用を媒介する.
- このスケールでのクロマチンの3D組織は,ゲノム調節メカニズムに直接関連しています.
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