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ArticlePlant molecular biology2020

Involvement of MEM1 in DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis.

Yanke Lu, Jie Dai, Liu Yang, Yumei La, Shaoxia Zhou, Sheng Qiang, Qianqian Wang, Feng Tan, Yufeng Wu, Weiwen Kong and 1 more

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Yanke LuCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Jie DaiCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Liu YangCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Yumei LaCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Shaoxia ZhouCollege of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Sheng QiangCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Qianqian WangCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Feng TanCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Yufeng WuState Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Bioinformatics Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Weiwen KongSchool of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, Jiangsu, China.
Honggui LaCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China. hongguila@njau.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4472-0240
Nanjing Agricultural University · CNYangzhou University · CN

Funding

"333" project of Jiangsu province BRA2017430Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities KJSY201704National Natural Science Foundation of China 31471214National Natural Science Foundation of China 31771427Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (CN) PAPD
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Abstract

key messageMEM1 participates in ROS1-mediated DNA demethylation pathway, and acts functionally as ROS3 to counteract the effects of RdDM pathway.mem1mutation leads to large numbers of hyper-DMRs inArabidopsisgenome. In higher plants, DNA methylation performs important functions in silencing transcribed genes and transposable elements (TEs). Active DNA demethylation mediated by REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 (ROS1) is able to antagonize the action of DNA methylation caused by RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway, which plays critical roles in keeping DNA methylation at a proper level. In this study, a new mutant named mem1 (for methylation elevated mutant 1) was isolated from a genetic screen of T-DNA insertional mutant population for lines with elevated DNA methylation at a particular locus through Chop-PCR method. MEM1 possesses a Zf-C3HC domain, and is localized in nucleus as well as highly expressed in cotyledons. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data showed that knockout mutation of MEM1 leads to 4519 CG, 1793 CHG and 12739 CHH hyper-DMRs (for differentially methylated regions). Further analysis indicated that there are 2751, 2216 and 2042 overlapped CG hyper-DMRs between mem1-1and three mutants, i.e. ros1-4, rdd and ros3-2, respectively; 797, 2514, and 6766 overlapped CHH hyper-DMRs were observed between mem1-1 and three such mutants, respectively; mem1 nrpd1-3 and mem1 rdm1 double mutants showed nearly complete or partial loss of hypermethylation at 4 tested loci, suggesting that MEM1 performs similar functions as DNA glycosylase/lyases in counteracting excessive DNA methylation, and MEM1 plays important roles as REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 3 (ROS3) in erasing CHH methylation caused by the RdDM pathway. Together, these data demonstrate the involvement of MEM1 in ROS1-mediated DNA demethylation pathway and functional connections between MEM1 and ROS3.

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DNA DemethylationArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCell NucleusDNA MethylationDNA Transposable ElementsGene Knockdown TechniquesGene SilencingGenome, PlantMutationNuclear ProteinsPhylogenyPlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA-Binding ProteinsArabidopsis ProteinsDNA Transposable ElementsNuclear ProteinsRNA-Binding ProteinsROS1 protein, ArabidopsisROS3 protein, ArabidopsisDNA demethylationDNA glycosylase/lyaseMEM1ROS1ROS3

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