Polycomb associates genome-wide with a specific RNA polymerase II variant, and regulates metabolic genes in ESCs

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Polycomb associates genome-wide with a specific RNA polymerase II variant, and regulates metabolic genes in ESCs
Creators Name:	Brookes, E. and de Santiago, I. and Hebenstreit, D. and Morris, K.J. and Carroll, T. and Xie, S.Q. and Stock, J.K. and Heidemann, M. and Eick, D. and Nozaki, N. and Kimura, H. and Ragoussis, J. and Teichmann, S.A. and Pombo, A.
Abstract:	Polycomb repressor complexes (PRCs) are important chromatin modifiers fundamentally implicated in pluripotency and cancer. Polycomb silencing in embryonic stem cells (ESCs) can be accompanied by active chromatin and primed RNA polymerase II (RNAPII), but the relationship between PRCs and RNAPII remains unclear genome-wide. We mapped PRC repression markers and four RNAPII states in ESCs using ChIP-seq, and found that PRC targets exhibit a range of RNAPII variants. First, developmental PRC targets are bound by unproductive RNAPII (S5p(+)S7p(-)S2p(-)) genome-wide. Sequential ChIP, Ring1B depletion, and genome-wide correlations show that PRCs and RNAPII-S5p physically bind to the same chromatin and functionally synergize. Second, we identify a cohort of genes marked by PRC and elongating RNAPII (S5p(+)S7p(+)S2p(+)); they produce mRNA and protein, and their expression increases upon PRC1 knockdown. We show that this group of PRC targets switches between active and PRC-repressed states within the ESC population, and that many have roles in metabolism.
Keywords:	Cell Cycle, Cell Line, Chromatin, Developmental Gene Expression Regulation, Embryonic Stem Cells, Energy Metabolism, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Genome-Wide Association Study, Polycomb Repressive Complex 1, Polycomb-Group Proteins, Protein Binding, Protein Transport, RNA Polymerase II, Repressor Proteins, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Animals, Mice
Source:	Cell Stem Cell
ISSN:	1934-5909
Publisher:	Cell Press
Volume:	10
Number:	2
Page Range:	157-170
Date:	3 February 2012
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2011.12.017
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