High-resolution global analysis of the influences of Bas1 and Ino4 transcription factors on meiotic DNA break distributions in saccharomyces cerevisiae Journal Article
| Authors: | Zhu, X.; Keeney, S. |
| Article Title: | High-resolution global analysis of the influences of Bas1 and Ino4 transcription factors on meiotic DNA break distributions in saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Abstract: | Meiotic recombination initiates with DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) made by Spo11. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, many DSBs occur in “hotspots” coinciding with nucleosome-depleted gene promoters. Transcription factors (TFs) stimulate DSB formation in some hotspots, but TF roles are complex and variable between locations. Until now, available data for TF effects on global DSB patterns were of low spatial resolution and confined to a single TF. Here, we examine at high resolution the contributions of two TFs to genome-wide DSB distributions: Bas1, which was known to regulate DSB activity at some loci, and Ino4, for which some binding sites were known to be within strong DSB hotspots. We examined fine-scale DSB distributions in TF mutant strains by deep sequencing oligonucleotides that remain covalently bound to Spo11 as a byproduct of DSB formation, mapped Bas1 and Ino4 binding sites in meiotic cells, evaluated chromatin structure around DSB hotspots, and measured changes in global messenger RNA levels. Our findings show that binding of these TFs has essentially no predictive power for DSB hotspot activity and definitively support the hypothesis that TF control of DSB numbers is context dependent and frequently indirect. TFs often affected the fine-scale distributions of DSBs within hotspots, and when seen, these effects paralleled effects on local chromatin structure. In contrast, changes in DSB frequencies in hotspots did not correlate with quantitative measures of chromatin accessibility, histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation, or transcript levels. We also ruled out hotspot competition as a major source of indirect TF effects on DSB distributions. Thus, counter to prevailing models, roles of these TFs on DSB hotspot strength cannot be simply explained via chromatin “openness,” histone modification, or compensatory interactions between adjacent hotspots. © 2015 by the Genetics Society of America. |
| Keywords: | controlled study; unclassified drug; promoter region; nonhuman; protein localization; genetic association; transcription factor; dna methylation; dna strand breakage; double stranded dna; regulatory mechanism; messenger rna; saccharomyces cerevisiae; chromatin; histone h3; binding site; oligonucleotide; lysine; chromatin structure; meiotic recombination; double-strand break; spo11; priority journal; article; bas1 protein; ino4 protein |
| Journal Title: | Genetics |
| Volume: | 201 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| ISSN: | 0016-6731 |
| Publisher: | Genetics Society of America |
| Date Published: | 2015-10-01 |
| Start Page: | 525 |
| End Page: | 542 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1534/genetics.115.178293 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PMCID: | PMC4596667 |
| PUBMED: | 26245832 |
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| Notes: | Export Date: 2 November 2015 -- Source: Scopus |
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