Recruitment of Histone Acetylases Gcn5 and Esa1 to Promoters of Actively Transcribed Genes
(A) Correlation between chromatin regulator occupancy and transcription rates. The binding trend was calculated by computing the moving median of the binding ratio over a sliding window of 100 genes across all genes ordered by transcription rate as described previously for other regulators such as Set1 (Ng et al., 2002, 2003). The transcription rates for yeast genes and the binding data for RSC were determined previously (Holstege et al., 1998; Ng et al., 2002). Rpb1 occupancy correlates with transcription rate across the genome, whereas RSC occupancy does not, and these proteins served as controls.
(B) Fine mapping of Gcn5 (green), Esa1 (red), and TFIIB (blue) occupancy within the RPL2B locus. The binding ratios from segment-specific chromatin IP experiments are shown for Gcn5, Esa1, and TFIIB for each of the DNA segments A–I. The binding ratios (representing the enrichment generated by the ChIP) were all normalized to the promoter of ARN1, which was set to 1.
(C) The binding ratios for the general transcription factor TFIIB, RNA pol II (8WG16), Gcn5, and Esa1 are shown in uninduced (black) and induced (gray) states for heat shock (25°C versus 15 min at 37°C) at the SSA4 promoter, amino acid starvation (YNB versus 10 min in minimal synthetic media + sulfometuron methyl) at the ARG3 promoter, and galactose (raffinose versus galactose) at the GAL1/10 promoters. Binding ratios were calculated as in (B). The exact growth and inducing conditions can be found in the Supplemental Data. These experiments were repeated multiple times and the variation was never more than 15%.