An integrated SAGA and TFIID PIC assembly pathway selective for poised and induced promoters [ChIP-Exo]

Genome-wide, little is understood about how proteins organize at inducible promoters before and after in-duction, and to what extent inducible and constitutive architectures depend on cofactors. We report that se-quence-specific transcription factors and their tethered cofactors (e.g., SAGA, Mediator, TUP, NuA4, SWI/SNF, RPD3-L) are already bound to promoters prior to induction (“poised”), rather than recruited upon induction, whereas induction recruits the pre-initiation complex (PIC). Through depletion and/or deletion ex-periments we show that SAGA does not function at constitutive promoters, although a SAGA-independent Gcn5 does acetylate +1 nucleosomes there. At poised promoters, SAGA catalyzes +1 nucleosome acetylation but not PIC assembly. At induced promoters, SAGA catalyzes acetylation, deubiquitylation, and PIC assembly. Surprisingly, SAGA mediates induction by creating a PIC that allows TFIID to stably associate, rather than creating a TFIID-independent PIC, as is generally thought. These findings suggest that inducible systems, where present, evolved on top of constitutive systems. Genome-wide analysis of yeast TFs under heat shcok and mock heat shock conditions using ChIP-exo