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Public on Jan 05, 2023 |
| Title |
High level and nature of transcriptional noise in yeast cells [4tU-Seq] |
| Organism |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Experiment type |
Other
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| Summary |
“Biological noise” is defined as functionally insignificant events that occur in living cells due to imperfect fidelity of biological processes. Distinguishing between biological function and biological noise is often difficult, and experiments to measure biological noise have not been performed. Here, we measure biological noise in yeast cells by analyzing chromatin structure and transcription of an 18 kb region of DNA whose sequence was randomly generated and hence is functionally irrelevant. Nucleosome occupancy on random-sequence DNA is comparable to that on yeast genomic DNA. However, nucleosome-depleted regions are much less frequent, and there are fewer well-positioned nucleosomes and shorter nucleosome arrays. Steady-state levels of RNAs expressed from random-sequence DNA are comparable to those of yeast mRNAs, although transcription and mRNA decay rates are at higher levels. Transcriptional initiation (5’ ends) from random-sequence DNA occurs at numerous sites at low levels, indicating very low intrinsic specificity of the Pol II machinery. In contrast, poly(A) profiles (relative levels and clustering of 3’ isoforms) of random-sequence RNAs are roughly comparable to those of endogenous yeast RNAs, which are restricted to 3’ untranslated regions. RNAs expressed from random-sequence DNA show higher cell-to-cell variability than RNAs expressed from yeast genomic DNA, suggesting that functional elements limit the variability among individual cells within a population. These observations indicate that transcriptional noise occurs at high levels in yeast, and they provide insight into how chromatin and transcription patterns arise from the evolved yeast genome.
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| Overall design |
4tU-Seq of the strain harboring random-sequence artificial chromosome (ChrXVII).
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| Contributor(s) |
Gvozdenov Z, Struhl K |
| Citation missing |
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| NIH grant(s) |
| Grant ID |
Grant title |
Affiliation |
Name |
| F32 GM140555 |
Transcriptome-scale, condition-specific regulation of mRNA isoform stability via the 3'UTR |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) |
Zlata Gvozdenov |
| R01 GM030186 |
Mechanisms of yeast transcriptional initiation |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) |
KEVIN STRUHL |
| R35 GM131801 |
Mechanism of yeast gene regulation |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) |
KEVIN STRUHL |
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| Submission date |
Oct 21, 2022 |
| Last update date |
Jan 07, 2023 |
| Contact name |
Zlata Gvozdenov |
| Organization name |
Harvard Medical School
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| Department |
BCMP
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| Lab |
Kevin Struhl
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| Street address |
240 Longwood Ave
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| City |
Boston |
| State/province |
MA |
| ZIP/Postal code |
02115 |
| Country |
USA |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL26302 |
NextSeq 550 (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) |
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| Samples (5)
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| This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries: |
| GSE216450 |
High level and nature of transcriptional noise in yeast cells |
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA893652 |
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