Single-Cell Tracing Dissects Regulation of Maintenance and Inheritance of Transcriptional Reinduction Memory.

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Date publication

mai 2020

Journal

Molecular cell

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr CHARVIN Gilles


Tous les auteurs :
Bheda P, Aguilar-Gómez D, Becker NB, Becker J, Stavrou E, Kukhtevich I, Höfer T, Maerkl S, Charvin G, Marr C, Kirmizis A, Schneider R

Résumé

Transcriptional memory of gene expression enables adaptation to repeated stimuli across many organisms. However, the regulation and heritability of transcriptional memory in single cells and through divisions remains poorly understood. Here, we combined microfluidics with single-cell live imaging to monitor Saccharomyces cerevisiae galactokinase 1 (GAL1) expression over multiple generations. By applying pedigree analysis, we dissected and quantified the maintenance and inheritance of transcriptional reinduction memory in individual cells through multiple divisions. We systematically screened for loss- and gain-of-memory knockouts to identify memory regulators in thousands of single cells. We identified new loss-of-memory mutants, which affect memory inheritance into progeny. We also unveiled a gain-of-memory mutant, elp6Δ, and suggest that this new phenotype can be mediated through decreased histone occupancy at the GAL1 promoter. Our work uncovers principles of maintenance and inheritance of gene expression states and their regulators at the single-cell level.

Mots clés

ChIP, Gal1, SGA, epigenetics, inheritance, microfluidics, modeling, pedigree, single cell, transcriptional memory

Référence

Mol. Cell. 2020 May 1;: