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Series GSE41686 Query DataSets for GSE41686
Status Public on Jul 26, 2013
Title A global change in RNA Polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition [MNase-seq]
Organism Drosophila melanogaster
Experiment type Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary During animal development, a fertilized egg is initially under the control of maternal products and only starts zygotic transcription after several cell divisions. In animals such as Xenopus, zebrafish and Drosophila, a massive increase in zygotic transcription occurs during the mid-blastula transition (MBT), when cells shift from rapid, synchronous cell divisions without gap phases to prolonged asynchronous divisions. Before MBT, only a few so-called pre-MBT genes are expressed. How transcription is set up during these early stages is poorly understood. For example, paused RNA Polymerase (Pol II) is frequently found at developmental control genes in mammalian embryonic stem cells and Drosophila embryos but when Pol II pausing is first established in the embryo is unknown. We have analyzed the genome-wide Pol II occupancy during the maternal-to-zygotic transition in hand-staged Drosophila embryos. The results show that massive Pol II recruitment and pausing is established during MBT. The ~100 genes that are transcribed before MBT are particularly short, consistent with a need for rapid transcription during these early cell divisions. Remarkably, most of these genes are transcribed without Pol II pausing and this correlates with a TATA-enriched promoter type. This suggests that distinct strategies are used for activation in the early Drosophila embryo and this may reflect general dynamic properties of promoters used throughout development.
 
Overall design Mnase-seq in staged Drosophila embryos
 
Contributor(s) Chen K, Johnston J, Shao W, Meier S, Koenecke N, Staber C, Zeitlinger J
Citation(s) 23951546
Submission date Oct 18, 2012
Last update date May 15, 2019
Contact name Julia Zeitlinger
E-mail(s) jbz@stowers.org
Organization name Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Lab Zeitlinger Lab
Street address 1000 E 50th St
City Kansas City
State/province MO
ZIP/Postal code 64110
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL11203 Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx (Drosophila melanogaster)
Samples (1)
GSM1022624 Mnase-seq in MBT staged embryos
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE41703 A global change in RNA Polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition
Relations
BioProject PRJNA177993
SRA SRP016559

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