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Genetic Adaptation of C. elegans to Environment Changes II: Multigenerational Analysis of Genome-wide Chromatin Remodeling

ABSTRACT: Chemical modifications to the tails of histone proteins act as gene regulators that play a pivotal role in adaptive responses to environmental stress. Determining the short and long term kinetics of histone marks is essential for understanding their functions in adaptation. We used Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism to study the histone modification kinetics in response to environmental stress, taking advantage of their ability to live in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. We investigated the multigenerational genome-wide dynamics of five histone marks (H3K4me3, H3K27me3, H4K20me1, H3K36me1, and H3K9me3) by maintaining P0 animals on terrestrial (agar plates), F1 in aquatic cultures, and F2 back on terrestrial environments. We determined the distributions of histone marks in the gene promoter regions and found that H4K20me1, H3K36me1, and H3K9me3 showed up to eleven-fold differences in density, whereas H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 remained highly constant during adaptation from terrestrial to aquatic environments. Furthermore, we predicted that up to five combinations of histone marks can co-occupy single gene promoters and confirmed the colocalization of these histone marks by structured illumination microscopy. The co-occupancy increases with environment changes and different co-occupancy patterns contribute to variances in gene expressions and thereby presents a supporting evidence for the histone code hypothesis.

ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans

PROVIDER: GSE103775 | GEO | 2021/07/09

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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