Publication Date:
2014-06-05
Description:
Transcriptional enhancers are crucial regulators of gene expression and animal development and the characterization of their genomic organization, spatiotemporal activities and sequence properties is a key goal in modern biology. Here we characterize the in vivo activity of 7,705 Drosophila melanogaster enhancer candidates covering 13.5% of the non-coding non-repetitive genome throughout embryogenesis. 3,557 (46%) candidates are active, suggesting a high density with 50,000 to 100,000 developmental enhancers genome-wide. The vast majority of enhancers display specific spatial patterns that are highly dynamic during development. Most appear to regulate their neighbouring genes, suggesting that the cis-regulatory genome is organized locally into domains, which are supported by chromosomal domains, insulator binding and genome evolution. However, 12 to 21 per cent of enhancers appear to skip non-expressed neighbours and regulate a more distal gene. Finally, we computationally identify cis-regulatory motifs that are predictive and required for enhancer activity, as we validate experimentally. This work provides global insights into the organization of an animal regulatory genome and the make-up of enhancer sequences and confirms and generalizes principles from previous studies. All enhancer patterns are annotated manually with a controlled vocabulary and all results are available through a web interface (http://enhancers.starklab.org), including the raw images of all microscopy slides for manual inspection at arbitrary zoom levels.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kvon, Evgeny Z -- Kazmar, Tomas -- Stampfel, Gerald -- Yanez-Cuna, J Omar -- Pagani, Michaela -- Schernhuber, Katharina -- Dickson, Barry J -- Stark, Alexander -- England -- Nature. 2014 Aug 7;512(7512):91-5. doi: 10.1038/nature13395. Epub 2014 Jun 1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter VBC, Dr Bohr-Gasse 7, 1030 Vienna, Austria [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA (B.J.D.); Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA (E.Z.K.). ; Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter VBC, Dr Bohr-Gasse 7, 1030 Vienna, Austria. ; 1] Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter VBC, Dr Bohr-Gasse 7, 1030 Vienna, Austria [2].〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24896182" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Drosophila melanogaster/*embryology/*genetics
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Embryonic Development/*genetics
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Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics
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Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/*genetics
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Genome, Insect/*genetics
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Internet
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Nucleotide Motifs/genetics
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Organ Specificity/genetics
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Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid/genetics
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Reproducibility of Results
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User-Computer Interface
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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