Plant lamin-like proteins mediate chromatin tethering at the nuclear periphery
Plant lamin-like proteins mediate chromatin tethering at the nuclear periphery
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DOI:
10.1186/s13059-019-1694-3
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发表时间:
2019-04-30
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影响因子:
12.3
通讯作者:
Liu, Chang
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作者:
Hu, Bo;Wang, Nan;Liu, Chang
Background: The nuclear envelope not only serves as a physical barrier separating nuclear content from the cytoplasm but also plays critical roles in modulating the three-dimensional organization of genomic DNA. For both plants and animals, the nuclear periphery is a functional compartment enriched with heterochromatin. To date, how plants manage to selectively tether chromatin at the nuclear periphery is unclear.Results: By conducting dual-color fluorescence in situ hybridization experiments on 2C nuclei, we show that in Arabidopsis thaliana, specific chromatin positioning at the nuclear periphery requires plant lamin-like proteins CROWDED NUCLEI 1 (CRWN1), CRWN4, and DNA methylation in CHG and CHH contexts. With chromosome painting and Hi-C analyses, we show global attenuation of spatial chromatin compartmentalization and chromatin positioning patterns at the nuclear periphery in both the crwn1 and crwn4 mutants. Furthermore, ChIP-seq analysis indicates that CRWN1 directly interacts with chromatin domains localized at the nuclear periphery, which mainly contains non-accessible chromatin.Conclusions: In summary, we conclude that CRWN1 is a key component of the lamina-chromatin network in plants. It is functionally equivalent to animal lamins, playing critical roles in modulating patterns of chromatin positioning at the nuclear periphery.