| Citation | Passannante M, Marti CO, Pfefferli C, Moroni PS, Kaeser-Pebernard S, Puoti A, Hunziker P, Wicky C, Muller F. Different Mi-2 complexes for various developmental functions in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One, 2010. |
| PubMed ID | 21060680 |
| Short Description | Different Mi-2 complexes for various developmental functions in Caenorhabditis elegans. GEO Record: GSE21376 Platform: GPL200 Download gene-centric, log2 transformed data: WBPaper00037765.ce.mr.csv |
| # of Conditions | 9 |
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Biochemical purifications from mammalian cells and Xenopus oocytes revealed that vertebrate Mi-2 proteins reside in multisubunit NuRD (Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase) complexes. Since all NuRD subunits are highly conserved in the genomes of C. elegans and Drosophila, it was suggested that NuRD complexes also exist in invertebrates. Recently, a novel dMec complex, composed of dMi-2 and dMEP-1 was identified in Drosophila. The genome of C. elegans encodes two highly homologous Mi-2 orthologues, LET-418 and CHD-3. Here we demonstrate that these proteins define at least three different protein complexes, two distinct NuRD complexes and one MEC complex. The two canonical NuRD complexes share the same core subunits HDA-1/HDAC, LIN-53/RbAp and LIN-40/MTA, but differ in their Mi-2 orthologues LET-418 or CHD-3. LET-418 but not CHD-3, interacts with the Kruppel-like protein MEP-1 in a distinct complex, the MEC complex. Based on microarrays analyses, we propose that MEC constitutes an important LET-418 containing regulatory complex during C. elegans embryonic and early larval development. It is required for the repression of germline potential in somatic cells and acts when blastomeres are still dividing and differentiating. The two NuRD complexes may not be important for the early development, but may act later during postembryonic development. Altogether, our data suggest a considerable complexity in the composition, the developmental function and the tissue-specificity of the different C. elegans Mi-2 complexes. Experimental Details: WBPaper00037765:L1_let-418_RNAi_rep_3 WBPaper00037765:L1_mep-1_RNAi_rep_3 WBPaper00037765:L1_gfp_RNAi_rep_3 WBPaper00037765:L1_let-418_RNAi_rep_2 WBPaper00037765:L1_mep-1_RNAi_rep_2 WBPaper00037765:L1_gfp_RNAi_rep_2 WBPaper00037765:L1_let-418_RNAi_rep_1 WBPaper00037765:L1_mep-1_RNAi_rep_1 WBPaper00037765:L1_gfp_RNAi_rep_1. |
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