Figure 7.
The defect to nucleosome spacing in the absence of Cac1 is restored post-replication and enhanced in the absence of replication-independent histone turnover. Alignment of nucleosomal reads on nascent DNA to the TSS in wild-type (orange) and cac1Δ strains (blue) illustrates progressive accumulation of a spacing defect in mid S-phase (A and B). This is restored in late S-phase (C). The spacing defect in asynchronous total chromatin (D) is less than that observed in mid S-phase (A and B). Nucleosomal reads from asynchronous wild-type, cac1Δ, hir1Δ and hir1Δcac1Δ strains were aligned to the TSS of all genes (n = 5015) (E). The nucleosome depleted region at promoters is partially filled in a hir1Δcac1Δ strain (green) in comparison to cac1Δ (orange), hir1Δ (blue) and wild-type (grey). The defect to nucleosome spacing is quantified in (F). The defect is increased in the hir1Δcac1Δ consistent with replication-independent histone turnover acting to restore nucleosome density on coding regions.