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Genome-Scale Identification of Nucleosome Positions in S. cerevisiae
Guo-Cheng Yuan,Yuen-Jong Liu,*Michael F. Dion,Michael D. Slack,Lani F. Wu,Steven J. Altschuler,Oliver J. Rando
The positioning of nucleosomes along chromatin has been implicatedin the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic cells, becausepackaging DNA into nucleosomes affects sequence accessibility.We developed a tiled microarray approach to identify at highresolution the translational positions of 2278 nucleosomes over482 kilobases of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA, including almostall of chromosome III and 223 additional regulatory regions.The majority of the nucleosomes identified were well-positioned.We found a stereotyped chromatin organization at Pol II promotersconsisting of a nucleosome-free region 200 base pairs upstreamof the start codon flanked on both sides by positioned nucleosomes.The nucleosome-free sequences were evolutionarily conservedand were enriched in poly-deoxyadenosine or poly-deoxythymidinesequences. Most occupied transcription factor binding motifswere devoid of nucleosomes, strongly suggesting that nucleosomepositioning is a global determinant of transcription factoraccess.
Bauer Center for Genomics Research, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Published online 16 June 2005
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* Present address: Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,Yale University, Post Office Box 208114, New Haven, CT 06520,USA.
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