Journal
MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20209866
Keywords
effector genes; gene expression noise; Pol II pausing; scRNA‐ seq; TATA promoter
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- National Institutes of Health [DP2OD004561]
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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The study found differences between paused promoters with high levels of paused Pol II and TATA promoters showing Pol II occupancy only when the gene is active. These two promoter types are associated with different chromatin accessibility and expression characteristics, potentially optimized for different properties. It is proposed that tissue-specific genes have evolved to use different strategies for their differential expression across tissues.
Core promoter types differ in the extent to which RNA polymerase II (Pol II) pauses after initiation, but how this affects their tissue-specific gene expression characteristics is not well understood. While promoters with Pol II pausing elements are active throughout development, TATA promoters are highly active in differentiated tissues. We therefore used a genomics approach on late-stage Drosophila embryos to analyze the properties of promoter types. Using tissue-specific Pol II ChIP-seq, we found that paused promoters have high levels of paused Pol II throughout the embryo, even in tissues where the gene is not expressed, while TATA promoters only show Pol II occupancy when the gene is active. The promoter types are associated with different chromatin accessibility in ATAC-seq data and have different expression characteristics in single-cell RNA-seq data. The two promoter types may therefore be optimized for different properties: paused promoters show more consistent expression when active, while TATA promoters have lower background expression when inactive. We propose that tissue-specific genes have evolved to use two different strategies for their differential expression across tissues.
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