Highlights d Antisense transcription leads to À1/+1 nucleosome sliding, reducing sense initiation d H3K36me3 nucleosomes are differently positioned compared to H3K18ac nucleosomes d RSC recruitment to À1/+1 nucleosomes is modulated by histone acetylation levels d 20% of S. cerevisiae genes are significantly repressed by the proposed mechanism

High noncoding readthrough transcription leads to ARS chromatin regulation Given the links between replication initiation and chromatin structure, we then analyzed the effects of the Nrd1 depletion-induced transcription readthrough into replication origins on nucleosome positioning. Chromatin was extracted from Nrd1-AA cells either untreated or treated for 1 h with rapamycin and digested Noncoding transcription and replication program Genome Research 1883

Changes in gene expression are a hallmark of learning and memory consolidation. Little is known about how alternative mRNA processing, particularly abundant in neuron-specific genes, contributes to these processes. Prototype RNA binding proteins of the neuronally expressed ELAV/Hu family are candidates for roles in learning and memory, but their capacity to cross-regulate and take over each other’s functions complicate substantiation of such links. Honey bees Apis mellifera have only one elav/Hu family gene elavl2, that has functionally diversified by increasing alternative splicing including an evolutionary conserved microexon. RNAi knockdown demonstrates that ELAVL2 is required for learning and memory in bees. ELAVL2 is dynamically expressed with altered alternative splicing and subcellular localization in mushroom bodies, but not in other brain regions. Expression and alternative splicing of elavl2 change during memory consolidation illustrating an alternative mRNA processing program as part of a local gene expression response underlying memory consolidation.

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AbstractEukaryotic genomes are almost entirely transcribed by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). Consequently, the transcription of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) often overlaps with coding gene promoters triggering potential gene repression through a poorly characterized mechanism of transcription interference. In this study, we propose a global model of chromatin-based transcription interference in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae). By using a noncoding transcription inducible strain, we analyzed the relationship between antisense elongation and coding sense repression, nucleosome occupancy and transcription-associated histone modifications using near-base pair resolution techniques. We show that antisense noncoding transcription leads to the deaceylation of a subpopulation of −1/+1 nucleosomes associated with increased H3K36 trimethylation (H3K36me3). Reduced acetylation results in decreased binding of the RSC chromatin remodeler at −1/+1 nucleosomes and subsequent sliding into the Nucleosome-Depleted Region (NDR) hindering Pre-Initiation Complex (PIC) association. Finally, we extend our model by showing that natural antisense noncoding transcription significantly represses around 20% of S. cerevisiae genes through this chromatin-based transcription interference mechanism.HighlightsInduction of antisense noncoding transcription leads to −1/+1 nucleosome sliding that competes with sense transcription PIC deposition.Antisense induction leads to a subpopulation of H3K36me3 nucleosomes differently positioned compared to H3K18ac nucleosomes.RSC chromatin remodeler recruitment to −1/+1 nucleosomes is modulated by histone acetylation levels.20% of S. cerevisiae genes are significantly repressed by this antisense-dependent chromatin-based transcription interference mechanism.