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Plastid signaling triggers HDA6-mediated epigenetic programs during environmental sensing in plants [Bisulfite-seq]

ABSTRACT: Plants adapt to environmental changes by adjusting growth and defense, and the role of epigenetic modifications in this process is unclear. Sensing and adjusting to environmental changes are more important in certain tissues such as epidermis, vasculature, meristem, and reproductive tissues. These tissues possess sensory plastids that are specialized in environmental sensing. We show perturbation of four sensory plastid proteins MSH1, PPD3, CUE1, and SAL1 induce gene expression and DNA methylation changes targeted to networks associated to environmental sensing, with significant overlap with hda6-induced CHG hypermethylated genes at 12-hr daylength. At 16-hr daylength, hda6 loses CHG hypermethylation in gene body, and sensory plastid mutants have weaker phenotypes and DNA methylation- and gene expression- associated gene networks. We show daylength-responsive epistatic interaction between sensory plastid mutants with hda6. We also show that hda6 mutation confers daylength memory and, with msh1, enhanced tolerance to heat stress and biotic stress. These results suggest that HDA6 mediates programmed adjustments in plant phenotype triggered by sensory plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signaling in response to daylength and environmental cues.

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

PROVIDER: GSE270032 | GEO | 2024/06/20

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:DNA cytosine methylation is a hallmark of epigenetic gene silencing. DNA demethylation requires ROS1, a bifunctional DNA glycosylase/lyases and open chromatin status mediated by IDM1. HDA6 is a RDP3-like histone deacetylase and was confirmed to mediate DNA methylation. In previous screening for ros1 suppressor, we identified two hda6 mutants reverting ros1-caused hypermethylation at RD29A and 35S promoters respectively, indicating the antagonization of DNA methylation between HDA6 and ROS1. To learn antagonized effects between HDA6 and ROS1 at DNA cytosine methylation genome-wide, we performed whole genome bisulfite sequencing to search antagonized targets of HDA6 and ROS1 and their specific targets to evaluate their roles on DNA methylation. To evaluate HDA6’s roles in sRNA biogenesis and nucleosome positioning, we also performed small RNA sequencing and genome-wide mapping of nucleosome positioning of C24, ros1, hda6-9 and hda6-10. Our results indicate that around 43% ros1-caused CG hypermethylation, 74.5% and 84.5% ros1-caused CHG and CHH hypermethylation were reverted by the two hda6 alleles in the ros1 background respectively. These results indicate that most of ROS1-demethylated targets are also HDA6-mediated DNA methylated targets. In addition, we observed that HDA6-affected DNA methylation targets are far more than ROS1-demethylation targets at CHG and CHH context, but not at CG context. sRNA analysis showed that HDA6 inhibits LTR/Gypsy and TE gene 24nt siRNA accumulation, while promotes RC/Helitron 24nt siRNA accumulation. Our Mono-nucleosome positioning data further showed that the two hda6 alleles have striking difference on nucleosome positioning, hda6-10 obviously have different nucleosome positioning patterns with hda6-9. Our results indicate HDA6 not only mediates overall DNA methylation at CG, CHG and CHH context, and antagonizes with ROS1 mediated DNA demethylation, but also regulates nucleosome positioning and small RNA accumulation at some genome specific regions.

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Plastid signaling triggers HDA6-mediated epigenetic programs during environmental sensing in plants [Bisulfite-seq]

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