[HTML][HTML] Chromatin organization in early land plants reveals an ancestral association between H3K27me3, transposons, and constitutive heterochromatin

SA Montgomery, Y Tanizawa, B Galik, N Wang, T Ito… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Genome packaging by nucleosomes is a hallmark of eukaryotes. Histones and the pathways
that deposit, remove, and read histone modifications are deeply conserved. Yet, we lack …

Loss of HP1 causes depletion of H3K27me3 from facultative heterochromatin and gain of H3K27me2 at constitutive heterochromatin

K Jamieson, ET Wiles, KJ McNaught, S Sidoli… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
Methylated lysine 27 on histone H3 (H3K27me) marks repressed “facultative
heterochromatin,” including developmentally regulated genes in plants and animals. The …

Genome-Wide Association of Histone H3 Lysine Nine Methylation with CHG DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

YV Bernatavichute, X Zhang, S Cokus, M Pellegrini… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) is a hallmark of transcriptional silencing in many
organisms. In Arabidopsis thaliana, dimethylation of H3K9 (H3K9m2) is important in the …

The Functional Topography of the Arabidopsis Genome Is Organized in a Reduced Number of Linear Motifs of Chromatin States

J Sequeira-Mendes, I Aragüez, R Peiró… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin is of major relevance for gene expression, cell division, and differentiation. Here,
we determined the landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana chromatin states using 16 features …

Genomic distribution of maize facultative heterochromatin marked by trimethylation of H3K27

I Makarevitch, SR Eichten, R Briskine, AJ Waters… - The Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Trimethylation of histone H3 Lys-27 (H3K27me3) plays a critical role in regulating gene
expression during plant and animal development. We characterized the genome-wide …

Chromatin indexing in Arabidopsis: an epigenomic tale of tails and more

F Roudier, FK Teixeira, V Colot - Trends in Genetics, 2009 - cell.com
Packaging DNA into chromatin is pivotal for the regulation of genome activity in eukaryotes.
This chromatin-level control relies on a range of histone modifications and variants …

Integrative epigenomic mapping defines four main chromatin states in Arabidopsis

F Roudier, I Ahmed, C Bérard, A Sarazin… - The EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
Post‐translational modification of histones and DNA methylation are important components
of chromatin‐level control of genome activity in eukaryotes. However, principles governing …

[HTML][HTML] Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome

M Borg, D Jiang, F Berger - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•The combination of histone variants greatly expands nucleosome diversity.•H2A
and H2B variants occupy distinct chromatin landscapes.•Histone H3. 1 controls epigenetic …

Accessible DNA and relative depletion of H3K9me2 at maize loci undergoing RNA-directed DNA methylation

JI Gent, TF Madzima, R Bader, MR Kent, X Zhang… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) in plants is a well-characterized example of RNA
interference-related transcriptional gene silencing. To determine the relationships between …

Emerging roles of chromatin in the maintenance of genome organization and function in plants

Z Vergara, C Gutierrez - Genome Biology, 2017 - Springer
Chromatin is not a uniform macromolecular entity; it contains different domains
characterized by complex signatures of DNA and histone modifications. Such domains are …