Genome-wide profiling of forum domains in Drosophila melanogaster.
Forum domains are stretches of chromosomal DNA that are excised from eukaryotic chromosomes during their spontaneous non-random fragmentation. Most forum domains are 50-200 kb in length. We mapped forum domain termini using FISH on polytene chromosomes and we performed genome-wide mapping using a Drosophila melanogaster genomic tiling microarray consisting of overlapping 3 kb fragments. We found that forum termini very often correspond to regions of intercalary heterochromatin and regions of late replication in polytene chromosomes. We found that forum domains contain clusters of several or many genes. The largest forum domains correspond to the main clusters of homeotic genes inside BX-C and ANTP-C, cluster of histone genes and clusters of piRNAs. PRE/TRE and transcription factor binding sites often reside inside domains and do not overlap with forum domain termini. We also found that about 20% of forum domain termini correspond to small chromosomal regions where Ago1, Ago2, small RNAs and repressive chromatin structures are detected. Our results indicate that forum domains correspond to big multi-gene chromosomal units, some of which could be coordinately expressed. The data on the global mapping of forum domains revealed a strong correlation between fragmentation sites in chromosomes, particular sets of mobile elements and regions of intercalary heterochromatin.
Department of Genome Organization, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia. tchurikov@eimb.ru
Nickolai A
NA
Tchurikov
Olga V
OV
Kretova
Dmitri V
DV
Sosin
Ivan A
IA
Zykov
Igor F
IF
Zhimulev
Yuri V
YV
Kravatsky
D000818:Animals; D059006:Chromosomes, Insect / Q000737:chemistry*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D049750:Genome, Insect; D006570:Heterochromatin / Q000737:chemistry; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D058727:RNA, Small Untranslated / Q000032:analysis
D006570:Heterochromatin; D058727:RNA, Small Untranslated
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