The genome-wide transcriptional regulatory landscape of ecdysone in the silkworm

Epigenetics & Chromatin
Dong ChengQingyou Xia

Abstract

The silkworm, Bombyx mori, a typical representative of metamorphic insects, is of great agricultural and economic importance. The steroid hormone ecdysone (20-hydroxyecdysone, 20E) is the central regulator of insect developmental transitions, and its nuclear receptors are crucial for numerous biological processes, including reproduction, metabolism, and immunity. However, genome-wide DNA regulatory elements and the ecdysone receptor (EcR) that control these programs of gene expression are not well defined. In this study, we investigated the alterations in three types of histone modification in silkworm embryonic cells treated with 20E by chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq). We identified enhancers using histone modifications and derived genome-wide ecdysone-dependent enhancer activity maps in the silkworm. We found enhancers enriched for monomethylation of histone H3 Lys4 (H3K4me1) that showed dynamic changes in acetylation of histone H3 Lys27 (H3K27ac) after 20E treatment and functioned to regulate the transcription of specific genes. EcR regulated transcription by binding not only to proximal promoters but also to the distal enhancers of target genes. Moreover, only 52.65% EcR peaks contained ecdysone response...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
acetylation
immunoprecipitation
ChIP-Seq
RNA-seq
ChIP
transfection

Software Mentioned

STAR
RSEM
RSAT
closestBed
Trimmomatic
bowtie2
MEME Suite
IGV genome browser
DESeq2
DEseq

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