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RNA quality control factors nucleate Clr4/SUV39H and trigger constitutive heterochromatin assembly.
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- Phosphorylation of HP1/Swi6 relieves competition with Suv39/Clr4 on nucleosomes and enables H3K9 trimethyl spreading.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
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- Phosphorylation of HP1/Swi6 relieves competition with Suv39/Clr4 on nucleosomes and enables H3K9 trimethyl spreading.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Discrete Subdomains Establish Epigenetic Diversity in Subtelomeric Heterochromatin.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Intrinsically disordered region of Clr4/Suv39 regulates its enzymatic activity and ensures heterochromatin spreading.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
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- Mechanistic insights into the stimulation of the histone H3K9 methyltransferase Clr4 by proximal H3K14 ubiquitination.Science advances · 2025Article
- Protocol for chromatin immunoprecipitation of chromatin-binding proteins in Schizosaccharomyces pombe using a dual-crosslinking approach.STAR protocols · 2025Article
- Finding new roles of classic biomolecular condensates in the nucleus: Lessons from fission yeast.Cell insight · 2024Review
- Mapping the dynamics of epigenetic adaptation in S. pombe during heterochromatin misregulation.Developmental cell · 2024Article
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Abstract
In eukaryotes, the Suv39 family of proteins tri-methylate lysine 9 of histone H3 (H3K9me) to form constitutive heterochromatin. However, how Suv39 proteins are nucleated at heterochromatin is not fully described. In the fission yeast, current models posit that Argonaute1-associated small RNAs (sRNAs) nucleate the sole H3K9 methyltransferase, Clr4/SUV39H, to centromeres. Here, we show that in the absence of all sRNAs and H3K9me, the Mtl1 and Red1 core (MTREC)/PAXT complex nucleates Clr4/SUV39H at a heterochromatic long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) at which the two H3K9 deacetylases, Sir2 and Clr3, also accumulate by distinct mechanisms. Iterative cycles of H3K9 deacetylation and methylation spread Clr4/SUV39H from the nucleation center in an sRNA-independent manner, generating a basal H3K9me state. This is acted upon by the RNAi machinery to augment and amplify the Clr4/H3K9me signal at centromeres to establish heterochromatin. Overall, our data reveal that lncRNAs and RNA quality control factors can nucleate heterochromatin and function as epigenetic silencers in eukaryotes.
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