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The unicellular ciliate Paramecium contains a large vegetative macronucleus with several unusual characteristics, including an extremely high coding density and high polyploidy. As macronculear chromatin is devoid of heterochromatin, our study characterizes the functional epigenomic organization necessary for gene regulation and proper Pol II activity. Histone marks (H3K4me3, H3K9ac, H3K27me3) reveal no narrow peaks but broad domains along gene bodies, whereas intergenic regions are devoid of nucleosomes. Our data implicate H3K4me3 levels inside ORFs to be the main factor associated with gene expression, and H3K27me3 appears in association with H3K4me3 in plastic genes. Silent and lowly expressed genes show low nucleosome occupancy, suggesting that gene inactivation does not involve increased nucleosome occupancy and chromatin condensation. Because of a high occupancy of Pol II along highly expressed ORFs, transcriptional elongation appears to be quite different from that of other species. This is supported by missing heptameric repeats in the C-terminal domain of Pol II and a divergent elongation system. Our data imply that unoccupied DNA is the default state, whereas gene activation requires nucleosome recruitment together with broad domains of H3K4me3. In summary, gene activation and silencing in Paramecium run counter to the current understanding of chromatin biology.
For medicine to fulfill its promise of personalized treatments based on a better understanding of disease biology, computational and statistical tools must exist to analyze the increasing amount of patient data that becomes available. A particular challenge is that several types of data are being measured to cope with the complexity of the underlying systems, enhance predictive modeling and enrich molecular understanding.
Here we review a number of recent approaches that specialize in the analysis of multimodal data in the context of predictive biomedicine. We focus on methods that combine different OMIC measurements with image or genome variation data. Our overview shows the diversity of methods that address analysis challenges and reveals new avenues for novel developments.
Understanding the complexity of transcriptional regulation is a major goal of computational biology. Because experimental linkage of regulatory sites to genes is challenging, computational methods considering epigenomics data have been proposed to create tissue-specific regulatory maps. However, we showed that these approaches are not well suited to account for the variations of the regulatory landscape between cell-types. To overcome these drawbacks, we developed a new method called STITCHIT, that identifies and links putative regulatory sites to genes. Within STITCHIT, we consider the chromatin accessibility signal of all samples jointly to identify regions exhibiting a signal variation related to the expression of a distinct gene. STITCHIT outperforms previous approaches in various validation experiments and was used with a genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screen to prioritize novel doxorubicin-resistance genes and their associated non-coding regulatory regions. We believe that our work paves the way for a more refined understanding of transcriptional regulation at the gene-level.