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.