Atrophin controls developmental signaling pathways via interactions with Trithorax-like
- University of Toronto, Canada
- Stockholm University, Sweden
- Umeå University, Sweden
- University College London, United Kingdom
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- King's College London, United Kingdom
Abstract
Mutations in human Atrophin1, a transcriptional corepressor, cause dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, a neurodegenerative disease. Drosophila Atrophin (Atro) mutants display many phenotypes, including neurodegeneration, segmentation, patterning and planar polarity defects. Despite Atro's critical role in development and disease, relatively little is known about Atro's binding partners and downstream targets. We present the first genomic analysis of Atro using ChIP-seq against endogenous Atro. ChIP-seq identified 1300 potential direct targets of Atro including engrailed, and components of the Dpp and Notch signaling pathways. We show Atro regulates Dpp and Notch signaling in larval imaginal discs, at least partially via regulation of thickveins and fringe. In addition, bioinformatics analyses, sequential ChIP and coimmunoprecipitation experiments reveal that Atro interacts with the Drosophila GAGA Factor, Trithorax-like (Trl), and they bind to the same loci simultaneously. Phenotypic analyses of Trl and Atro clones suggest that Atro is required to modulate the transcription activation by Trl in larval imaginal discs. Taken together these data indicate that Atro is a major Trl cofactor that functions to moderate developmental gene transcription.
Data availability
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ChIP-seq of Atrophin in Drosophila S2 cellsPublicly available at the NCBI Gene (accession no: GSE87509).
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Atrophin (Atro) ChIP-seq data from Drosophila S2 cellsPublicly available at the NCBI Gene (accession no: GSE87471).
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Chromatin Binding Site Mapping of Transcription Factors in D. melanogaster by ChIP-seqPublicly available at Modencode (http://intermine.modencode.org).
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Chromatin Binding Site MappingPublicly available at Modencode (http://intermine.modencode.org).
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The Genomic Binding Profile of GAGA Element Associated Factor (GAF) in Drosophila S2 cellsPublicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE40646).
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Funding
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN 143319)
- Helen McNeill
Medical Research Council (NIRG-G1002186)
- Manolis Fanto
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
- Per Stenberg
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Copyright
© 2017, Yeung et al.
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Atrophin controls developmental signaling pathways via interactions with Trithorax-like
eLife 6:e23084.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.23084
