Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Ancestral chromatin state constrains the functional landscape of bivalent domains in mammalian spermatogenesis
doi: 10.64898/2026.04.14.718508
Figure Lengend Snippet: A, Phylogeny of the species used in this study. B, ChromHMM emissions plot and genomic coverage for human round spermatid (RS) chromatin state maps. C, Example genome browser tracks (hg38) of chromatin states defined by the ChromHMM model. D, Quantitative H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 ChIP-seq signal information for individual regions defined by ChromHMM (see Methods). Color represents functional annotation (FA) of the ChromHMM state. E, Total genomic coverage in megabases (Mb) of bivalent regions across species. F, Fraction of promoters (+/- 1kb around TSS) which overlap with a bivalent domain. Total numbers of promoters: human n=86,363, rhesus n=35,419, mouse n=78,296, rat n=32,862, bull n=36,068, opossum n=30,367. G, Expression level (FPKM) of genes with promoters marked by a given chromatin state in human RS. Box shows median and interquartile range; whiskers show range of the distribution. *p < 1e-10, 1-sample t-test performed (alternative=”less”) against the mean expression of all genes (dashed line). H, GC content of individual regions within each FA type. *p < 1e-30, 1-sample t-test performed (alternative=”greater”) against the mean whole-genome GC content (hg38, dashed line). I, Mean phastCons score within individual regions by FA type. *p < 1e-30, 1-sample t-test performed (alternative=”less”) against the mean of a set of re-shuffled regions in the human genome (hg38, dashed line). J, Genomic enrichment (odds ratio) of CpG islands, promoters, and repeat elements (LINE/SINE/LTR) in bivalent elements across species (see Methods). K, Position weight matrix of the ten most frequent enriched DNA motifs found in human bivalent regions near promoters (n=10,000). For each enriched de-novo motif, frequency in the test set (left), motif E-value (-log10) (middle), and number of predicted TFs (right) are shown.
Article Snippet: ChIP DNA was purified using the Zymo ChIP DNA Clean & Concentrator kit (Zymo D5201) following manufacturer’s instructions.
Techniques: ChIP-sequencing, Functional Assay, Expressing