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ArticleNucleic acids research2023

Depositing centromere repeats induces heritable intragenic heterochromatin establishment and spreading in Arabidopsis.

Zhang-Wei Liu, Jie Liu, Fengquan Liu, Xuehua Zhong

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Epigenetics in the modern era of crop improvements.Science China. Life sciences · 2025
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  7. Transcriptional Silencing of 35S rDNA inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhang-Wei LiuDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Jie LiuDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Fengquan LiuInstitute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210014, China.
Xuehua ZhongDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2350-0046
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USJiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences · CN

Funding

Uncovering the epigenetic codes for genome integrity, developmental and environmental interaction.R35GM124806 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI XUEHUA ZHONG · 2017 to 2026
$4.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124806
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stable transmission of non-DNA-sequence-based epigenetic information contributes to heritable phenotypic variants and thus to biological diversity. While studies on spontaneous natural epigenome variants have revealed an association of epialleles with a wide range of biological traits in both plants and animals, the function, transmission mechanism, and stability of an epiallele over generations in a locus-specific manner remain poorly investigated. Here, we invented a DNA sequence deposition strategy to generate a locus-specific epiallele by depositing CEN180 satellite repeats into a euchromatic target locus in Arabidopsis. Using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in system, we demonstrated that depositing CEN180 repeats can induce heterochromatin nucleation accompanied by DNA methylation, H3K9me2, and changes in the nucleosome occupancy at the insertion sites. Interestingly, both DNA methylation and H3K9me2 are restricted within the depositing sites and depletion of an H3K9me2 demethylase IBM1 enables the outward heterochromatin propagation into the neighboring regions, leading to inheritable target gene silencing to persist for at least five generations. Together, these results demonstrate the promise of employing a cis-engineering system for the creation of stable and site-specific epialleles and provide important insights into functional epigenome studies and locus-specific transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.

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ArabidopsisCentromereAnimalsArabidopsis ProteinsDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticGene SilencingHeterochromatinJumonji Domain-Containing Histone DemethylasesArabidopsis ProteinsHeterochromatinIBM1 protein, ArabidopsisJumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases

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PMID37094065
PMCPMC10325890
OpenAlexW4366817096

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