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Expression analysis in HDA6 mutants

ABSTRACT: In addition to the canonical RNAi pathways that targets mRNAs in the cytoplasm, several RNA-dependent pathways operate in the nucleus to induce sequence-specific epigenetic modifications. One specialized type of RNAi-mediated pathway is RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM). During RdDM, nuclear DNA with sequence identity to the trigger dsRNA is de novo methylated at almost all cytosine residues, providing a mark for the formation of transcriptionally silent heterochromatin. Genetic forward screens identified the RPD3-like histone deacetylase HDA6 as the enzyme responsible for the histone deacetylation step of RdDM and suggest that HDA6 might have acquired specific functions for RNA-directed transcriptional silencing processes [Aufsatz et al., 2002a; Aufsatz et al., 2002b]. Complete loss-of-function mutants for AtHDA6 (rts1-1; RNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing) exhibit reactivation of RdDM-silenced promoters, despite the continuous presence of the silencing-inducing RNA signal. One of the found mutant alleles, rts1-5, has an amino acid substitution located at a conserved position within the HDAC domain (Naumann et al., manuscript in preparation). This mutant is characterized by strong reactivation of an RdDM-silenced target promoter, despite maintaining wild-type levels of cytosine methylation. An evaluation of the transcription pattern among the mutants with opposite methylation phenotype and wild-type plants should show which genes are differentially regulated between the mutants in comparison to wild-type plants. Keywords: Expression profiling by array 9 samples were used in this experiment

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: Franziska Schuller

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-18988 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:DNA cytosine methylation is a hallmark of epigenetic gene silencing. DNA demethylation requires ROS1, a bifunctional DNA glycosylase/lyases and open chromatin status mediated by IDM1. HDA6 is a RDP3-like histone deacetylase and was confirmed to mediate DNA methylation. In previous screening for ros1 suppressor, we identified two hda6 mutants reverting ros1-caused hypermethylation at RD29A and 35S promoters respectively, indicating the antagonization of DNA methylation between HDA6 and ROS1. To learn antagonized effects between HDA6 and ROS1 at DNA cytosine methylation genome-wide, we performed whole genome bisulfite sequencing to search antagonized targets of HDA6 and ROS1 and their specific targets to evaluate their roles on DNA methylation. To evaluate HDA6’s roles in sRNA biogenesis and nucleosome positioning, we also performed small RNA sequencing and genome-wide mapping of nucleosome positioning of C24, ros1, hda6-9 and hda6-10. Our results indicate that around 43% ros1-caused CG hypermethylation, 74.5% and 84.5% ros1-caused CHG and CHH hypermethylation were reverted by the two hda6 alleles in the ros1 background respectively. These results indicate that most of ROS1-demethylated targets are also HDA6-mediated DNA methylated targets. In addition, we observed that HDA6-affected DNA methylation targets are far more than ROS1-demethylation targets at CHG and CHH context, but not at CG context. sRNA analysis showed that HDA6 inhibits LTR/Gypsy and TE gene 24nt siRNA accumulation, while promotes RC/Helitron 24nt siRNA accumulation. Our Mono-nucleosome positioning data further showed that the two hda6 alleles have striking difference on nucleosome positioning, hda6-10 obviously have different nucleosome positioning patterns with hda6-9. Our results indicate HDA6 not only mediates overall DNA methylation at CG, CHG and CHH context, and antagonizes with ROS1 mediated DNA demethylation, but also regulates nucleosome positioning and small RNA accumulation at some genome specific regions.

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Expression analysis in HDA6 mutants

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