The process of specific gene transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is initiated by the<p>binding of specific transcription factors to DNA. A global understanding of the mechanisms of gene<p>transcriptional regulation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae goes through the description of the targets and<p>the behavior of those transcription factors.<p>The GATA factors are specific transcription factors intervening in the regulation of Nitrogen<p>Catabolite Repression (NCR)-sensitive genes, a mechanism encompassing the transcriptional<p>regulations leading to the preferential use of good nitrogen sources of the growth medium of yeast in<p>the presence of less good nitrogen sources. Those 4 GATA factors involved in NCR comprise 2<p>activators (Gat1 and Gln3) and 2 repressors (Gzf3 and Dal80).<p>Generally speaking, the promoters of genes have always been described like the main place for<p>the integration of the transcription regulation signals relayed by the general and specific transcription<p>factors and the chromatin remodeling factors. Furthermore, the GATA factors have been described as<p>integrating the external signals of nitrogen availability thanks to their specific DNA binding to<p>consensus GATA sequences in the promoter of NCR-sensitive genes. The results presented here<p>introduce many nuances to the model, notably implying new proteins but also new regions in the<p>regulation process of the NCR-sensitive gene regulation. Indeed, the first goal of this work is to<p>discover and understand the mechanisms of NCR-sensitive gene regulation that will explain the<p>variations in their expression levels in the presence of various nitrogen sources and their dependency<p>towards the GATA factors.<p>Strikingly, it appeared that GATA factor positioning was not limited to the promoter, but<p>occurred also in the transcribed region. It seems that the transcription factors may have been driven<p>by the general transcription machinery (Pol II). The binding of a chromatin remodeling complex, RSC,<p>has also been demonstrated in the coding region of NCR-sensitive genes. Moreover, the binding of the<p>histone acetyltransferase complex, SAGA, recruited by the GATA activators, was highlighted along<p>NCR-sensitive genes. The SAGA complex was also implied in their transcriptional regulation.<p>Finally, a ChIP-sequencing experiment revealed an unsuspected number and diversification of<p>targets of the GATA factors in yeast, which were not limited to NCR-sensitive genes.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209169 |
| Date | 19 December 2014 |
| Creators | Ronsmans, Aria |
| Contributors | Dubois, Evelyne, Droogmans, Louis, Georis, Isabelle, Vanhamme, Luc, Marini, Anna Maria, Helmlinger, Dominique, André, Bruno, Lafontaine, Denis, Hermand, Damien |
| Publisher | Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences – Sciences biologiques, Bruxelles |
| Source Sets | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation |
| Format | 1 v., No full-text files |
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