A new role for histone demethylases in the maintenance of plant genome integrity

J Antunez-Sanchez, M Naish, JS Ramirez-Prado… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Histone modifications deposited by the Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) play a
critical role in the control of growth, development, and adaptation to environmental …

Dynamic and spatial restriction of Polycomb activity by plant histone demethylases

W Yan, D Chen, C Smaczniak, J Engelhorn, H Liu… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
Targeted changes in chromatin state at thousands of genes are central to eukaryotic
development. RELATIVE OF EARLY FLOWERING 6 (REF6) is a Jumonji-type histone …

Dynamics of H3K27me3 methylation and demethylation in plant development

ES Gan, Y Xu, T Ito - Plant signaling & behavior, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic regulation controls multiple aspects of the plant development. The N-terminal tail
of histone can be differently modified to regulate various chromatin activities. One of them …

Combinations of maternal-specific repressive epigenetic marks in the endosperm control seed dormancy

H Sato, J Santos-González, C Köhler - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Abstract Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2)-mediated trimethylation of histone H3 on
lysine 27 (H3K27me3) and methylation of histone 3 on lysine 9 (H3K9me) are two …

Mitotic inheritance of PRC2-mediated silencing: mechanistic insights and developmental perspectives

A Hugues, CS Jacobs, F Roudier - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Maintenance of gene repression by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) that catalyzes
the trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27me3) is integral to the orchestration of …

Polycomb repressive complex 2 controls the embryo-to-seedling phase transition

D Bouyer, F Roudier, M Heese, ED Andersen… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is a key regulator of epigenetic states catalyzing
histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3), a repressive chromatin mark. PRC2 …

Transcriptional regulation of Arabidopsis polycomb repressive complex 2 coordinates cell-type proliferation and differentiation

M De Lucas, L Pu, G Turco, A Gaudinier… - The Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Spatiotemporal regulation of transcription is fine-tuned at multiple levels, including
chromatin compaction. Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) catalyzes the …

CURLY LEAF Regulates Gene Sets Coordinating Seed Size and Lipid Biosynthesis

J Liu, S Deng, H Wang, J Ye, HW Wu, HX Sun… - Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract CURLY LEAF (CLF), a histone methyltransferase of Polycomb Repressive Complex
2 (PRC2) for trimethylation of histone H3 Lys 27 (H3K27me3), has been thought as a …

Histone demethylases as counterbalance to H3K27me3 silencing in plants

P Crevillén - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
The universal importance of epigenetic regulation has become explicit over the last decade.
There is now a detailed understanding of the molecular signatures and chromatin-modifying …

Genome‐wide occupancy of histone H3K27 methyltransferases CURLY LEAF and SWINGER in Arabidopsis seedlings

J Shu, C Chen, RK Thapa, S Bian, V Nguyen, K Yu… - Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins form two protein complexes, PcG Repressive
Complex 1 (PRC 1) and PRC 2, which are key epigenetic regulators in eukaryotes. PRC 2 …