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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

RID is required for both repeat-induced point mutation and nucleation of a novel transitional heterochromatic state for euchromatic repeats.

Zhen He, Nannan Wu, Ruonan Yao, Huawei Tan, Yingying Sun, Jingxuan Chen, Lan Xue, Xiaonan Chen, Sihai Yang, Laurence D Hurst and 2 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 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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Zhen HeSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Nannan WuSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Ruonan YaoSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Huawei TanSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Yingying SunSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Jingxuan ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Lan XueSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Xiaonan ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Sihai YangSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Laurence D HurstMilner Centre for Evolution, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1002-1054
Long WangSchool of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7067-0558
Ju HuangState Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Bioinformatics Center, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 14380209National Key Research and Development Program of China 2023YFD2200102National Natural Science Foundation of China 32270664Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province for Distinguished Young Scholars BK20240064
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To maintain genome integrity, repeat sequences are subject to heterochromatin inactivation and, in Neurospora, repeat-induced point mutation (RIP). The initiating factors behind both are poorly understood. We resolve the paradoxical observation that newly introduced Repeat-Linker-Repeat (R-L-R) constructs require RID alone for RIP, while genomic repeats are RIPed in the absence of RID, showing that eu- and hetero- chromatic repeats are handled differently, the latter additionally requiring DIM-2. The differences between mechanisms associated with older and newer duplicates caution against extrapolation from mechanisms inferred from model experimental systems. Additionally, while chromatin status affects RIP, we also show that RID, when tethered with LexA, acts as a nucleation center for the transition from euchromatin to heterochromatin in an HDA-1 dependent fashion. Constitutive heterochromatin by contrast is largely HDA1 independent and depends on HDA-1 paralogs. RID is thus a dual function initiator of both RIP and the transition to heterochromatin.

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EuchromatinFungal ProteinsHeterochromatinPoint MutationRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidNeurospora crassaEuchromatinFungal ProteinsHeterochromatin

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PMID40183634
PMCPMC11969663

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