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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Flowering plants utilize small RNA molecules to guide DNA methyltransferases
to genomic sequences. This RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway preferentially
targets euchromatic transposable elements. However, RdDM is thought to be recruited
by methylation of histone H3 at lysine 9 (H3K9me), a hallmark of heterochromatin.
How RdDM is targeted to euchromatin despite an affinity for H3K9me is unclear.
Here we show that loss of histone H1 enhances heterochromatic RdDM, preferentially
at nucleosome linker DNA. Surprisingly, this does not require SHH1, the RdDM component
that binds H3K9me. Furthermore, H3K9me is dispensable for RdDM, as is CG DNA methylation.
Instead, we find that non-CG methylation is specifically associated with small
RNA biogenesis, and without H1 small RNA production quantitatively expands to
non-CG methylated loci. Our results demonstrate that H1 enforces the separation
of euchromatic and heterochromatic DNA methylation pathways by excluding the small
RNA-generating branch of RdDM from non-CG methylated heterochromatin.
acknowledgement: We thank X Feng for helpful comments on the manuscript. This work
was supported by a European Research Council grant MaintainMeth (725746) to DZ.
article_number: e72676
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Jaemyung
full_name: Choi, Jaemyung
last_name: Choi
- first_name: David B
full_name: Lyons, David B
last_name: Lyons
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Zilberman, Daniel
id: 6973db13-dd5f-11ea-814e-b3e5455e9ed1
last_name: Zilberman
orcid: 0000-0002-0123-8649
citation:
ama: Choi J, Lyons DB, Zilberman D. Histone H1 prevents non-CG methylation-mediated
small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis heterochromatin. eLife. 2021;10. doi:10.7554/elife.72676
apa: Choi, J., Lyons, D. B., & Zilberman, D. (2021). Histone H1 prevents non-CG
methylation-mediated small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis heterochromatin. ELife.
eLife Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.72676
chicago: Choi, Jaemyung, David B Lyons, and Daniel Zilberman. “Histone H1 Prevents
Non-CG Methylation-Mediated Small RNA Biogenesis in Arabidopsis Heterochromatin.”
ELife. eLife Sciences Publications, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.72676.
ieee: J. Choi, D. B. Lyons, and D. Zilberman, “Histone H1 prevents non-CG methylation-mediated
small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis heterochromatin,” eLife, vol. 10. eLife
Sciences Publications, 2021.
ista: Choi J, Lyons DB, Zilberman D. 2021. Histone H1 prevents non-CG methylation-mediated
small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis heterochromatin. eLife. 10, e72676.
mla: Choi, Jaemyung, et al. “Histone H1 Prevents Non-CG Methylation-Mediated Small
RNA Biogenesis in Arabidopsis Heterochromatin.” ELife, vol. 10, e72676,
eLife Sciences Publications, 2021, doi:10.7554/elife.72676.
short: J. Choi, D.B. Lyons, D. Zilberman, ELife 10 (2021).
date_created: 2021-12-10T13:12:08Z
date_published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-17T06:21:08Z
day: '01'
ddc:
- '570'
department:
- _id: DaZi
doi: 10.7554/elife.72676
ec_funded: 1
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grant_number: '725746'
name: Quantitative analysis of DNA methylation maintenance with chromatin
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title: Histone H1 prevents non-CG methylation-mediated small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis
heterochromatin
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