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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cell. 2021 Feb 23:S1097-2765(21)00098-8. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.02.012

Figure 3. Depletion of KAT8 but not KANSL2 and KANSL3 abrogates global H4K16ac levels.

Figure 3.

(A) Heatmaps of H4K16ac ChIP-seq signal at all genes in six human cell lines (gene length is normalized). The signal is normalized to the total number of reads. TSS, transcription start site; TES, transcription end site.

(B) Density plot of normalized THP-1 H4K16ac ChIP-seq signal across different chromatin states defined by the Broad Institute ChromHMM project in K562 cells. Similar results were obtained using K562 H4K16ac ChIP-seq data. Txn, transcription. Color in the density plot conveys shape of the signal distribution normalized to maximum within one lane. The amount of H4K16ac is shown on the y axis.

(C) Boxplots demonstrating statistical summary of H4K16ac ChIP-seq signal in gene bodies of genes binned according to quantile (Q) distribution of expression in THP-1 cells. All groups are significantly different (p < 2.2e-16, two-sided Wilcoxon rank-sum test).

(D) Bar plot indicating abundances of individual H4 peptides (amino acids 4–17) with different acetylation combinations in mouse ESCs and human THP-1 cells measured using mass spectrometry.

(E) Heatmaps of H4K16ac ChIP-seq signal at all genes in NSL complex KD series. The signal is normalized to the number of Drosophila reads (see STAR methods).

(F) Average normalized H4K16ac ChIP-seq profiles across NSL target genes or all genes in NSL complex KD series.

(G) qRT-PCR quantitation of H4K16ac ChIP signal at selected loci after KDs of KANSL2, KANSL3, or KAT8. TSS, transcription start site; GB, gene body. Values are shown as mean ± SD.

(H) Example H4K16ac ChIP-seq tracks in NSL complex KD series.

(I) Western blotting analysis of H4K16ac and H3 levels after KANSL2, KANSL3, or KAT8 KDs.

See also Figure S3 and Tables S3 and S4.