3D epigenome architecture orchestrates cis and trans regulation of flowering time in rice [ChIA-PET]
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ABSTRACT: Repressive epigenetic modification histone H3 lysine 27 tri-methylation (H3K27me3) marks many agronomically important genes in plants. However, H3K27me3-associated three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture and its regulatory functions in rice flowering time remain unclear. In this study, we map H3K27me3-associated genome topology using long-read ChIA-PET and reveal extensive chromatin loops among H3K27me3-marked regions in different rice varieties and tissues. Multiple H3K27me3-associated chromatin loops usually tether together and further form repressive chromatin interacting domains (RIDs), which provide structural bases for the regulation of the co-modification and co-expression of interacting genes. Surprisingly, we identified extensive chromatin loops between the rice florigen genes Hd3a and RFT1, and frequent chromatin interactions between the positive flowering regulator Ehd1 on the chromosome 10 and Hd3a/ RFT1 loci on the chromosome 6. These results suggest that flowering genes might form a Ehd1-Hd3a/RFT1-centered spatial gene cluster in rice. We also demonstrate the flowering regulator protein complexes comprising Ghd7, Ghd8, and Hd1 could bind to the Ehd1-Hd3a/RFT1 spatial gene cluster. In addition, liquid-liquid phase separation of Ghd7 and Hd1, as well as the essentially synchronous expression of Ehd1 and Hd3a suggest that this spatial gene cluster acts as a regulatory hub to coordinately regulates the expression of Ehd1-Hd3a. This work uncovers the frame of integrated cis and trans molecular mechanism underlying transcriptional regulation of florigen genes in rice.
ORGANISM(S): Oryza sativa Japonica Group Oryza sativa Indica Group
PROVIDER: GSE214050 | GEO | 2022/09/28
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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