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ArticleThe Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology2015

Seed dormancy cycling in Arabidopsis: chromatin remodelling and regulation of DOG1 in response to seasonal environmental signals.

Steven Footitt, Kerstin Müller, Allison R Kermode, William E Finch-Savage

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Article in The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48 citing papers in PubMed, 101 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Steven FootittSchool of Life Sciences, Wellesbourne Campus, University of Warwick, Warwickshire, CV35 9EF, UK.
Kerstin Müller
Allison R Kermode
William E Finch-Savage
Simon Fraser University · CAUniversity of Warwick · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/I022201/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The involvement of chromatin remodelling in dormancy cycling in the soil seed bank (SSB) is poorly understood. Natural variation between the winter and summer annual Arabidopsis ecotypes Cvi and Bur was exploited to investigate the expression of genes involved in chromatin remodelling via histone 2B (H2B) ubiquitination/de-ubiquitination and histone acetylation/deacetylation, the repressive histone methyl transferases CURLY LEAF (CLF) and SWINGER (SWN), and the gene silencing repressor ROS1 (REPRESSOR OF SILENCING1) and promoter of silencing KYP/SUVH4 (KRYPTONITE), during dormancy cycling in the SSB. ROS1 expression was positively correlated with dormancy while the reverse was observed for CLF and KYP/SUVH4. We propose ROS1 dependent repression of silencing and a sequential requirement of CLF and KYP/SUVH4 dependent gene repression and silencing for the maintenance and suppression of dormancy during dormancy cycling. Seasonal expression of H2B modifying genes was correlated negatively with temperature and positively with DOG1 expression, as were histone acetyltransferase genes, with histone deacetylases positively correlated with temperature. Changes in the histone marks H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 were seen on DOG1 (DELAY OF GERMINATION1) in Cvi during dormancy cycling. H3K4me3 activating marks remained stable along DOG1. During relief of dormancy, H3K27me3 repressive marks slowly accumulated and accelerated on exposure to light completing dormancy loss. We propose that these marks on DOG1 serve as a thermal sensing mechanism during dormancy cycling in preparation for light repression of dormancy. Overall, chromatin remodelling plays a vital role in temporal sensing through regulation of gene expression.

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Chromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGene Expression Regulation, PlantTemperatureAcetylationArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHistonesHomeodomain ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPlant DormancySeasonsTranscription FactorsUbiquitinationArabidopsis ProteinsCURLY LEAF protein, ArabidopsisDOG1 protein, ArabidopsisHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHistonesHomeodomain ProteinsNuclear ProteinsROS1 protein, ArabidopsisSUVH4 protein, ArabidopsisSWINGER protein, ArabidopsisTranscription FactorsArabidopsischromatin remodellingdormancy cyclinghistone acetylationhistone methylationhistone ubiquitination

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PMID25439058
PMCPMC4671266
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