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ArticleNature plants2025

H3K36 methylation stamps transcription resistive to preserve development in plants.

Yao Yao, Jincong Zhou, Jiacheng Wang, Xue Lei, Anjie Jiang, Qianwen Sun

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Article in Nature plants, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Yao Yao *Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jincong Zhou *Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3868-4220
Jiacheng WangCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Xue LeiCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Anjie JiangCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Qianwen SunCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. sunqianwen@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-0111-5400

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 31571322National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 31822028
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Eukaryotic euchromatin is the less-compact chromatin and is modified by many histone modifications such as H3 lysine 36 methylation (H3K36me). Here we report a new chromatin state, 'transcription resistive', which is differentiated from activation and silencing. Transcription resistive is stamped by H3K36me with almost undetectable transcription activity but open-chromatin state, and occupies most documented plant essential genes. Mutating SDG8, previously known as the major H3K36 methyltransferase in Arabidopsis, surprisingly elevates 78.7% of H3K36me3-marked resistive loci, which accounts for 39.4% of the coding genome. Genetically, SDG8 prevents H3K36me activity of SDG4 at short and intronless genes to secure plant fertility, while it collaborates with other H3K36me methyltransferases on long and intron-rich genes. Together, our results reveal that SDG8 is the primary sensor that suppresses excessive H3K36me, and uncovered that 'transcription resistive' is a conserved H3K36me-stamped novel transcription state in plants, highlighting the regulatory diversities and biological significance of H3K36 methylation in eukaryotes.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHistonesTranscription, GeneticChromatinGene Expression Regulation, PlantMethylationArabidopsis ProteinsChromatinHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHistones

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