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ArticleGenome research2015

Genome-wide analysis of local chromatin packing in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Congmao Wang, Chang Liu, Damian Roqueiro, Dominik Grimm, Rebecca Schwab, Claude Becker, Christa Lanz, Detlef Weigel

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Article in Genome research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 158 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Congmao WangDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;
Chang LiuDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; chang.liu@tuebingen.mpg.de weigel@weigelworld.org.
Damian RoqueiroMachine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Dominik GrimmMachine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Rebecca SchwabDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;
Claude BeckerDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;
Christa LanzDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;
Detlef WeigelDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; chang.liu@tuebingen.mpg.de weigel@weigelworld.org.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spatial arrangement of interphase chromosomes in the nucleus is important for gene expression and genome function in animals and in plants. The recently developed Hi-C technology is an efficacious method to investigate genome packing. Here we present a detailed Hi-C map of the three-dimensional genome organization of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We find that local chromatin packing differs from the patterns seen in animals, with kilobasepair-sized segments that have much higher intrachromosome interaction rates than neighboring regions, representing a dominant local structural feature of genome conformation in A. thaliana. These regions, which appear as positive strips on two-dimensional representations of chromatin interaction, are enriched in epigenetic marks H3K27me3, H3.1, and H3.3. We also identify more than 400 insulator-like regions. Furthermore, although topologically associating domains (TADs), which are prominent in animals, are not an obvious feature of A. thaliana genome packing, we found more than 1000 regions that have properties of TAD boundaries, and a similar number of regions analogous to the interior of TADs. The insulator-like, TAD-boundary-like, and TAD-interior-like regions are each enriched for distinct epigenetic marks and are each correlated with different gene expression levels. We conclude that epigenetic modifications, gene density, and transcriptional activity combine to shape the local packing of the A. thaliana nuclear genome.

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Chromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGenomicsArabidopsisChromatinCluster AnalysisComputational BiologyEpigenesis, GeneticGenome, PlantHistonesInsulator ElementsChromatinHistones

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PMCPMC4315298

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