Highly parallel assays of tissue-specific enhancers in whole Drosophila embryos.
Nat Methods
; 10(8): 774-80, 2013 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Transcriptional enhancers are a primary mechanism by which tissue-specific gene expression is achieved. Despite the importance of these regulatory elements in development, responses to environmental stresses and disease, testing enhancer activity in animals remains tedious, with a minority of enhancers having been characterized. Here we describe 'enhancer-FACS-seq' (eFS) for highly parallel identification of active, tissue-specific enhancers in Drosophila melanogaster embryos. Analysis of enhancers identified by eFS as being active in mesodermal tissues revealed enriched DNA binding site motifs of known and putative, previously uncharacterized mesodermal transcription factors. Naive Bayes classifiers using transcription factor binding site motifs accurately predicted mesodermal enhancer activity. Application of eFS to other cell types and organisms should accelerate the cataloging of enhancers and understanding how transcriptional regulation is encoded in them.
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Colección:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Regulación del Desarrollo de la Expresión Génica
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Secuencias de Aminoácidos
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Drosophila melanogaster
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Citometría de Flujo
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Animals
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En
Revista:
Nat Methods
Asunto de la revista:
TECNICAS E PROCEDIMENTOS DE LABORATORIO
Año:
2013
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos