Figure 4

Silencing and viability of strains lacking Set1 is modulated by histone acetylation. (A) Deletion of RPD3 or DEP1 (Rpd3L complex) suppressed the silencing defects of strains lacking SET1, whereas deletion of RCO1 (Rpd3S complex) had no effect. (B) A diploid strain homozygous for the ADE2 and URA3 silencing reporters and heterozygous for SET1/set1::NatMX, GCN5/gcn5::HphMX, ELP3/elp3::KanMX, and SIR3/sir3::HIS3 was sporulated and spore viability was analyzed by tetrad analysis. Each row indicates the four-spore progeny of one diploid cell. Genotypes and mating type of the individual colonies were determined by replica-plating. Only those tetrads are shown of which the genotype of all four spores could be determined or deduced. The genotype of each colony is indicated by the position of the squares, where white indicates the WT allele and black indicates the mutant allele. (C) Combined deletion of SET1, GCN5, and ELP3 affected cell viability. Colony sizes of panel B (large, small, very small/no colony) were scored for each genotype indicated in SIR3 and sir3Δ backgrounds. (D) Wild type and set1Δ strains were transformed with an empty multi-copy plasmid (p) or a multi-copy plasmid carrying a genomic copy of Dot1 (pDot1) to examine the effect of intermediate levels of Dot1 overexpression on telomeric silencing. (E) Protein levels of Dot1 expressed from its endogenous locus and from the multi-copy plasmid were examined by immunoblot analysis. Pgk1 was used as a loading control and a dot1Δ strain was used as a negative control.