Reprogramming of Histone H3 Lysine Methylation During Plant Sexual Reproduction.

ABSTRACT: Plants undergo extensive reprogramming of chromatin status during sexual reproduction, a process vital to cell specification and pluri- or totipotency establishment. As a crucial way to regulate chromatin organization and transcriptional activity, histone modification can be reprogrammed during sporogenesis, gametogenesis, and embryogenesis in flowering plants. In this review, we first introduce enzymes required for writing, recognizing, and removing methylation marks on lysine residues in histone H3 tails, and describe their differential expression patterns in reproductive tissues, then we summarize their functions in the reprogramming of H3 lysine methylation and the corresponding chromatin re-organization during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis, and finally we discuss the molecular si

SUBMITTER: Fang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669150 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature