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ArticleNature communications2020

Coupling of H3K27me3 recognition with transcriptional repression through the BAH-PHD-CPL2 complex in Arabidopsis.

Yi-Zhe Zhang, Jianlong Yuan, Lingrui Zhang, Chunxiang Chen, Yuhua Wang, Guiping Zhang, Li Peng, Si-Si Xie, Jing Jiang, Jian-Kang Zhu and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yi-Zhe ZhangShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6244-5775
Jianlong YuanShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8195-5911
Lingrui ZhangDepartment of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Chunxiang ChenShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China.
Yuhua WangShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China.
Guiping ZhangShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China.
Li PengShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China.
Si-Si XieShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4880-0758
Jing JiangState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, 475004, Kaifeng, China.
Jian-Kang ZhuShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China. jkzhu@psc.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5134-731X
Jiamu DuKey Laboratory of Molecular Design for Plant Cell Factory of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Plant and Food Science, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, 518055, Shenzhen, China. dujm@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-1337-0786
Cheng-Guo DuanShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201602, Shanghai, China. cgduan@psc.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-0527-5866
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNHenan University · CNPurdue University West Lafayette · USSouthern University of Science and Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Histone 3 Lys 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3)-mediated epigenetic silencing plays a critical role in multiple biological processes. However, the H3K27me3 recognition and transcriptional repression mechanisms are only partially understood. Here, we report a mechanism for H3K27me3 recognition and transcriptional repression. Our structural and biochemical data showed that the BAH domain protein AIPP3 and the PHD proteins AIPP2 and PAIPP2 cooperate to read H3K27me3 and unmodified H3K4 histone marks, respectively, in Arabidopsis. The BAH-PHD bivalent histone reader complex silences a substantial subset of H3K27me3-enriched loci, including a number of development and stress response-related genes such as the RNA silencing effector gene ARGONAUTE 5 (AGO5). We found that the BAH-PHD module associates with CPL2, a plant-specific Pol II carboxyl terminal domain (CTD) phosphatase, to form the BAH-PHD-CPL2 complex (BPC) for transcriptional repression. The BPC complex represses transcription through CPL2-mediated CTD dephosphorylation, thereby causing inhibition of Pol II release from the transcriptional start site. Our work reveals a mechanism coupling H3K27me3 recognition with transcriptional repression through the alteration of Pol II phosphorylation states, thereby contributing to our understanding of the mechanism of H3K27me3-dependent silencing.

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Epigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, PlantArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsFlowersGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHistone CodeHistonesLysineMethylationModels, MolecularMultiprotein ComplexesPhosphoprotein PhosphatasesProtein ConformationTime FactorsArabidopsis ProteinsCPL2 protein, ArabidopsisHistonesLysineMultiprotein ComplexesPhosphoprotein Phosphatases

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