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. 2016 Jun 23;5:e16691. doi: 10.7554/eLife.16691

Figure 4. Set3 recruitment to the INO1 promoter under memory conditions requires both Sfl1 and the PHD finger.

(A) ChIP against Set3-GFP from cells grown under repressing, activating or memory conditions +/- rapamycin. (B) ChIP against SET3-GFP from wild type, sfl1∆ or set3-W140A cells grown under repressing, activating or memory conditions. (C and D) ChIP against RNAPII (C) and H3K4me2 (D) from wild type an set3-W140A strains grown under repressing, activating or memory conditions. For A–D, *p<0.05, compared with the repressing condition (Student’s t-test). (E and F) ChIP sequencing against H3K4me3 (E) and H3K4me2 (F) from wild type (left) and set3∆ (right) strains grown under repressing, activating and memory conditions using primers to amplify the INO1 promoter (−348 to −260) or the PRM1 CDS. (G) Confocal micrographs of Set3-FRB-GFP at the indicated times after addition of rapamycin. (H and I) ChIP of H3K4me2 (H) and RNAPII (I) from Set3-FRB-GFP strain grown under activation (-ino) or memory conditions (−ino → +ino). Cells were fixed at the indicated times after addition of either DMSO (mock) or rapamycin. All ChIP experiments were quantified by qPCR and are plotted as averages of three biological replicates ± standard error of the mean. *p<0.05, compared with t=0 (Student’s t-test).

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16691.008

Figure 4—source data 1. Genome wide analysis in wild type and set3∆ cells for H3K4me2 and H3K4me3 Chip-Seq.
Pairwise comparisons in separate sheets including: Set3-dependent H3K4me2 loci, Loci showing high H3K4me3 under activating vs repressing conditions, Loci showing Set3-dependent H3K4me3 under activating conditions vs repressing conditions, Loci showing higher H3K4me3 in the WT vs set3∆ strains under activating conditions and Loci that show higher H3K4me2 in the WT vs set3∆ under all conditions. Pairwise comparisons were conducted by the following procedure: For each condition, we pooled the ChIP-seq reads from the two replicates into one sample since the ChIP-seq signal from the two replicates were exceedingly similar. Then we calculated the reads coverage score for each pooled sample. The reads coverage score at a given genomic location is defined as the number reads that cover this location after extending each single-end read from start position downstream 150 bp. This score was further normalized by the total number of aligned reads of each sample for comparisons between samples. Second, we divided the genome into overlapping bins using a sliding window of width = 500 bp and a step size of 250 bp. Under this strategy, two consecutive windows will have 250 bp overlap, such that any ChIP signal, as long as shorter than 250 bp, will be completely covered in one window. This could help better detect the differential ChIP signal (compared to using non-overlap 500 bp windows where signal may split at the window boundary). Third, for each window, we define the total coverage score y as the summation of reads coverage score from all base pairs within the window. To illustrate our method for differential ChIP-seq analysis, we consider comparing the H3K4 tri-methylation between Repressed (REP) vs Memory (STR) conditions. We define a relative distance measure (D) between these two conditions as Di= yiREPyiSTR12(yiREP+yiSTR), i=1, , m.where yiREP and yiSTR are the total coverage score in the ith window for REP and STR conditions respectively. Likewise, we define the average coverage score in the log scale as Ai=log(12(yiREP+yiSTR)). As smaller yi values tend to be unstable, the same Di value at different average magnitude of ChIP signal may have different significance (Figure 4—source data 1). We propose an adaptive criterion to select windows with significant difference. 1. For biological significance, we only considered the windows whose average signal exceeds the 10% quantile genome-wide. 2. The remaining range of Ai from 0.10 quantile to its maximum is divided into consecutive bins with bin width of 0.1 (in the log scale). 3. For windows within each bin, we selected windows that corresponded to the lower or upper αth quantile or more extreme as putative significantly differentially methylated region. For example, in the REP vs. STR WT tri-methylation comparison, we are interested in regions that have lower tri-methylation in the REP condition. Thus we only select windows within each bin whose Di values are no greater than the lower αth qunatile. In this study the top 3% was used. All adjacent or overlapping windows were selected from this pipeline and merged together. For comparisons in which we expected the two samples to have a similar ChIP signal, we chose the windows corresponding to the middle 60% Di values of the distribution.
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.16691.009

Figure 4.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1. Loss of Set3 has no effect on histone acetylation or H3K4me3 at the INO1 promoter.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1.

(A) Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) using anti-H3K4me3 (A), anti-acetyl H3 (B) and anti-acetyl H4 (C) from either wild-type or set3Δ grown under repressing, activating or memory conditions. GAL1 promoter and PRM1 serve as a negative controls. *p<0.05, compared with the repressing condition (Student’s t-test).