Journal: Nucleic Acids Research
Article Title: Dynamic modulation of enhancer responsiveness by core promoter elements in living Drosophila embryos
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab1177
Figure Lengend Snippet: TATA and DPE differentially regulate ftz transcription. ( A , left) False-coloring of nuclei at stripe 1 (cyan) and stripe 2 (blue). (A, right) False-coloring of nuclei at stripe 5 (cyan) and stripe 6 (blue). The maximum projected image of a histone marker (His2Av-mRFP) is shown in gray. Images are oriented with anterior to the left. Scale bar indicates 20 μm. ( B ) Representative trajectories of transcription activity of ftz-MS2 complementation alleles in individual nuclei. AU; arbitrary unit. ( C ) MS2 trajectories for all analyzed nuclei. Each row represents the MS2 trajectory for a single nucleus. A total of 234, 236 and 227 nuclei at stripe 1, 248, 241 and 242 nuclei at stripe 2, 243, 238 and 240 nuclei at stripe 5, and 232, 239 and 240 nuclei at stripe 6 were analyzed from three independent embryos for the ftz-MS2 with WT, mTATA and mDPE core promoter, respectively. Nuclei were ordered by their onset of transcription in nc14. AU; arbitrary unit. ( D ) Boxplots showing the distribution of total output. The box indicates the lower (25%) and upper (75%) quantile and the open circle indicates the median. Whiskers extend to the most extreme, non-outlier data points. A total of 234, 236 and 227 nuclei at stripe 1, 248, 241 and 242 nuclei at stripe 2, 243, 238 and 240 nuclei at stripe 5, and 232, 239 and 240 nuclei at stripe 6 were analyzed from three independent embryos for the ftz-MS2 with WT, mTATA and mDPE core promoter, respectively. Median values relative to the ftz-MS2 with WT core promoter are shown at the bottom. The P -values of two-sided Wilcoxon rank sum test are shown at the top. AU; arbitrary unit. ( E ) Instantaneous fraction of actively transcribing nuclei at each expression domain. A total of 234, 236 and 227 nuclei at stripe 1, 248, 241 and 242 nuclei at stripe 2, 243, 238 and 240 nuclei at stripe 5, and 232, 239 and 240 nuclei at stripe 6 were analyzed from three independent embryos for the ftz-MS2 with WT, mTATA and mDPE core promoter, respectively. ( F ) Mean MS2 intensity per actively transcribing nucleus at each expression domain. A total of 234, 236 and 227 nuclei at stripe 1, 248, 241 and 242 nuclei at stripe 2, 243, 238 and 240 nuclei at stripe 5, and 232, 239 and 240 nuclei at stripe 6 were analyzed from three independent embryos for the ftz-MS2 with WT, mTATA and mDPE core promoter, respectively. Shades represent the standard deviation of the mean across active nuclei at a given time.
Article Snippet: Corresponding MS2 plasmid and p3×P3-EGFP.vas-int.NLS plasmid (addgene #60948) were co-injected.
Techniques: Marker, Activity Assay, Expressing, Standard Deviation