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ArticleNature communications2019

Dynamic control of enhancer activity drives stage-specific gene expression during flower morphogenesis.

Wenhao Yan, Dijun Chen, Julia Schumacher, Diego Durantini, Julia Engelhorn, Ming Chen, Cristel C Carles, Kerstin Kaufmann

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Wenhao YanDepartment for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8165-7335
Dijun ChenDepartment for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany. chendijun2012@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7456-2511
Julia SchumacherDepartment for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6509-7315
Diego DurantiniInstitute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Julia EngelhornUniversité Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CNRS, CEA, INRA, IRIG-LPCV, 38000 Grenoble, France, 38000, Grenoble, France.
Ming ChenDepartment of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
Cristel C CarlesUniversité Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CNRS, CEA, INRA, IRIG-LPCV, 38000 Grenoble, France, 38000, Grenoble, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-4860
Kerstin KaufmannDepartment for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany. kerstin.kaufmann@hu-berlin.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7960-6256

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enhancers are critical for developmental stage-specific gene expression, but their dynamic regulation in plants remains poorly understood. Here we compare genome-wide localization of H3K27ac, chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic changes during flower development in Arabidopsis. H3K27ac prevalently marks promoter-proximal regions, suggesting that H3K27ac is not a hallmark for enhancers in Arabidopsis. We provide computational and experimental evidence to confirm that distal DNase І hypersensitive sites are predictive of enhancers. The predicted enhancers are highly stage-specific across flower development, significantly associated with SNPs for flowering-related phenotypes, and conserved across crucifer species. Through the integration of genome-wide transcription factor (TF) binding datasets, we find that floral master regulators and stage-specific TFs are largely enriched at developmentally dynamic enhancers. Finally, we show that enhancer clusters and intronic enhancers significantly associate with stage-specific gene regulation by floral master TFs. Our study provides insights into the functional flexibility of enhancers during plant development, as well as hints to annotate plant enhancers.

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Enhancer Elements, GeneticArabidopsisChromatin ImmunoprecipitationFlowersGenes, PlantGenome-Wide Association StudyHistonesPhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideSequence Analysis, RNAHistones

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PMID30979870
PMCPMC6461659

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