Nucleolar rDNA folds into condensed foci with a specific combination of epigenetic marks

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Publikace nespadá pod Pedagogickou fakultu, ale pod Středoevropský technologický institut. Oficiální stránka publikace je na webu muni.cz.
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KUTASHEV Konstantin FRANEK Michal DIAMANTI Klev KOMOROWSKI Jan OLSINOVA Marie DVOŘÁČKOVÁ Martina

Rok publikování 2021
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Plant Journal
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Středoevropský technologický institut

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www https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15130
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15130
Klíčová slova chromatin; rDNA; nucleolar foci; histone variants; chromatin immunoprecipitation; super-resolution microscopy
Popis Arabidopsis thaliana 45S ribosomal genes (rDNA) are located in tandem arrays called nucleolus organizing regions on the termini of chromosomes 2 and 4 (NOR2 and NOR4) and encode rRNA, a crucial structural element of the ribosome. The current model of rDNA organization suggests that inactive rRNA genes accumulate in the condensed chromocenters in the nucleus and at the nucleolar periphery, while the nucleolus delineates active genes. We challenge the perspective that all intranucleolar rDNA is active by showing that a subset of nucleolar rDNA assembles into condensed foci marked by H3.1 and H3.3 histones that also contain the repressive H3K9me2 histone mark. By using plant lines containing a low number of rDNA copies, we further found that the condensed foci relate to the folding of rDNA, which appears to be a common mechanism of rDNA regulation inside the nucleolus. The H3K9me2 histone mark found in condensed foci represents a typical modification of bulk inactive rDNA, as we show by genome-wide approaches, similar to the H2A.W histone variant. The euchromatin histone marks H3K27me3 and H3K4me3, in contrast, do not colocalize with nucleolar foci and their overall levels in the nucleolus are very low. We further demonstrate that the rDNA promoter is an important regulatory region of the rDNA, where the distribution of histone variants and histone modifications are modulated in response to rDNA activity.
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