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Supplemental Material Pronounced Cohabitation of Active Immunoglobulin Genes from Three Different Chromosomes in Transcription Factories during Maximal Antibody Synthesis Sung-Kyun Park1, Yougui Xiang1,2, Xin Feng3 and William T. Garrard1,4 1Department of Molecular Biology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX 75390, USA. 2Tianjin Research Center of Basic Medical Science Tianjin Medical University Tianjin 300070, Peoples Republic of China 3Depatment of Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX 77030, USA 4Corresponding author E-mail [email protected] Supplemental Figure 1. Transcription factories and features of transcribing Ig gene alleles in plasma cells. (A) Transcribing Ig genes are associated with transcription factories. 3D RNA immuno-FISH results of two independent experiments where data from >100 plasma cell nuclei each were scored. (B) Numbers of transcription factories per plasma cell nucleus. 3D RNA immuno-FISH results where data from 10 plasma cell nuclei were scored. Supplemental Figure 2. Primary transcript signals of Ig genes reflect their gene locus positions in plasma cells. (A-C) Representative sequential 3D RNA and DNA FISH images of the same 0.3 μm optical section of a plasma cell nucleus outlined by white dashed lines. A: [DAPI (blue), Igi-RNA FISH (green) and Ig-DNA FISH (red)]; B: [DAPI (blue), IgHi-RNA FISH (green) and IgH-DNA FISH (red)]; C: [DAPI (blue), IgJi-RNA FISH (green) and IgJ-DNA FISH (red)]. (D) Box and whiskers plot for the distribution of distances between RNA- and DNA-FISH signals for each Ig gene. Data are from 243, 241 and 285 plasma cells for Ig, IgH and IgJ, respectively, analyzed in three independent experiments. Lower and upper whiskers denote the 10th and 90th percentiles, respectively, of the distributions. The lower and upper limits of the boxes denote the 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively. Solid and dashed lines in the boxes indicate the medians and means, respectively. Outliers are shown as filled circles. (E) Representative multi-color 3D DNA FISH image of the same 0.3 μm optical section of a plasma cell nucleus outlined by white dashed lines [DAPI (white), Ig(green), IgH (red), and IgJ (blue)]. (F) The percentages of cells that possess the indicated gene localized <1.0 μm from a different Ig gene are depicted in the overlapping images as quantified from 3D DNA FISH results for 256 plasma cells in three independent experiments. The sums of the percentages in any one-gene- circle add to over 100% because the same cells sometimes include two different pairs of co- localized Ig genes (asterisks). Supplemental Figure 3. Primary transcripts from the β-actin (ACTB), or the plasma-cell- specific BLIMP-1 (PRDM1) and syndecan-1 (SDC1) genes do not exhibit peripheral enrichment nor significant co-localization with the actively transcribed Ig genes. (A-C) Representative multi- color 3D RNA FISH images of the same 0.3 μm optical section of a plasma cell nucleus outlined by white dashed lines [DAPI (white), Igi(red), IgHi (blue), and PRDM1i, SDC1i, or ACTBi (green)]. (D-E) Bar graphs of 3D RNA FISH results from 298, 307 and 201 plasma cells for PRDM1, SDC1, or ACTB, respectively, analyzed in three independent experiments. (D) Distributions of distances between genes’ primary transcripts paired with those of Ig or IgH alleles. (E) Primary transcript separation distances from the nuclear periphery. Supplemental Figure 4. The Ig gene enhancers mediate trans-chromosomal interactions at transcription factories in pre-B cells. (A, B) Pre-B cells from Rag-1-/-HCm mice were subjected to -Pol II ChIP-3C-seq analyses employing BamHI digestion. The biotinylated bait primer used for extensions is shown as a bold arrowhead above the restriction map. (A) Mouse Ig sequences used as bait with interrogation of mouse IgH locus interacting sequences. Shown on the x-axis are the positions of Vh-, Dh-, Jh-, and Ch-regions (top), and iE and 3RR enhancers (bottom). Depicted on the y-axis are normalized sequence counts per million reads mapped to the mouse IgH locus from the indicated experimental (expt.6 and expt.7) samples. (B) Long range interactions between the human iE region of an ecotopically integrated human IgH transgene and the mouse Ig locus. Depicted on the y-axis are normalized sequence counts per million reads mapped to the human IgH locus from the above experimental (expt.6 and expt.7) samples. Description of Supplemental Fig. 4 Results: As a control we also probed for trans- chromosomal interactions between Ig and IgH genes in pre-B cells, which are known to exhibit significant but less prominent pairing than seen in plasma cells (Fig. 1E) (Hewitt et al., 2008; Xiang et al., 2011). Interestingly, in the Rag1-/- animal model employed in these pre-B cell experiments, we found that the Ig gene made contacts not only with mouse iE, but also with the ecotopically integrated human IgH transgene’s iE region; moreover, in contrast to the results obtained with plasmablasts (Fig. 3A), the mouse Ig gene did not contact 3RR in these pre-B cells (Supplemental Fig. 4A). Significantly, 3RR has been shown to be essential for plasma cell but not for pre-B cell specific functions (Vincent-Fabert et al., 2010). We conclude that the trans-chromosomal enhancer interactions made between the Ig and IgH genes correlate with the differentiation-dependent functions of these elements. Besides the Ig gene interacting with the IgH locus, it also interacted with other genes involved in B cell-specific functions. For example, we found that in pre-B cells Ig interacted with the gene encoding the DNA damage- induced protein Gadd45a that regulates Rag1/2 gene expression (data not shown) (Amin and Schlissel, 2008), and in plasmablasts Ig interacted with the gene encoding Gimap5, a protein necessary for B cell proliferation upon Ag-receptor stimulation (Supplemental Table 10) (Barnes et al., 2010). Supplemental Figure 5. 3C analysis of the IgH gene’s iE and 3RR interactions with the Ig gene’s iE region. The indicated samples from plasmablasts of WT, 3E-/-, DKO (3E-/-dE-/-) mice and CD4+CD8+ T cells were processed through 3C after BamHI digestion. Interchromosomal interactions were analyzed by hemi-nested PCR using Ig and selected IgH primer pairs. The PCR products of the -actin gene were used as a template control. Supplemental Figure 6. Crescent-shaped signals of the Ig mRNA hybridization patterns correspond to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-rich sides of plasma cells. (A,B) Representative multi-color 3D RNA immuno-FISH images of the same 0.3 m optical sections of individual plasma cell nuclei outlined by white dashed lines A: [Cμ (blue), poly(A)+ RNA (red), and α-PDI (protein disulfide isomerase, green)]. B: [Cμ (blue), rRNA (red), and α-PDI (green)]. (C) Representative multi-color 3D RNA immuno-FISH images of the same 0.3 m optical section of a normal rat kidney cell nucleus [poly(A)+ RNA (red), α-PDI (green), and DAPI (blue)]. Supplemental Figure 7. Representative reconstructed 3D five-color RNA FISH images of individual plasma cells. (A-C) Transcripts of Ig genes located either near the nuclear periphery or interior apparently diffuse between dense chromatin regions toward the nuclear pores. [C (red), Igi (green), C or CJ (blue), IgHi or IgJi (yellow), and DAPI (white)]. Primary transcripts of co-localized alleles are indicated with green and yellow arrows, and inter-chromatin channels with white arrows. (A) Co-localized Igк-IgH alleles located near the periphery. (B) Co-localized Igк-IgJ alleles located near the periphery. (C) Co-localized Igк-IgH alleles located within the nuclear interior. Supplemental Figure 8. Quantification of the locations of Ig gene alleles from the results of five-color 3D RNA FISH experiments on plasma cells. (A) Schematic representing areas quantified with respect to the hybridizing cytoplasmic crescents. A circle was fitted based on DAPI DNA staining and a virtual bisector was set to divide the nucleus into regions A and B, according to the crescents of cytoplasmic mRNA using the Image J program. (B-D) Bar graphs summarizing the quantification for % location of transcribing genes in zone A and B. Data are represented as means ±SD from three independent experiments. (B) Locations of Ig genes positioned <1.0 μm from the nuclear periphery (see also Supplemental Table 7 for primary data and P values from two tailed Student’s t-tests). (C) Locations of paired or unpaired Ig genes (see also Supplemental Table 8 for primary data and P values from two tailed Student’s t-tests). (D) Locations of transcribing genes positioned throughout the whole nucleus. (see also Supplemental Table 9 for primary data and P values from two tailed Student’s t-tests). Supplemental Figure 9. Quantification of representative results of multi-color 3D RNA ±immuno-FISH images of plasma cells. (A-C) The degree of co-localization was determined by comparing the signal intensity of a given pixel in channel 1 with the intensity of the corresponding pixel in channel 2 for the z slices indicated by yellow rectangles. Pearson’s correlation coefficient (Rr) describes the correlation of the intensity distribution between channels (Rr= -1.0: complete negative correlation, Rr= 0: no significant correlation, Rr= 1.0: complete co-localization). Mander’s overlap coefficient (R) indicates the overlap of signals and represents the true degree of co-localization (R= 0-0.6: values indicating absence of co- localization, R= 0.6-1.0: values indicating co-localization; e.g., 0.672 in Panel A implies that 67.2% of the selected areas of both channels co-localize). (A) [C (red), C (blue) and DAPI (white)]. (B) [Poly(A)+ RNA (red) and DAPI (green)].