Project description:A forward genetics screen led to the identification of the putative chromatin regulator EDM2 as a cellular anti-silencing factor and regulator of genome DNA methylation patterns. EDM2 contains a composite PHD finger domain that recognizes both active H3K4 and repressive H3K9 methylation marks at the intronic repeat elements in genes such as the histone H3K9 demethylase gene IBM1, and is necessary for maintaining the expression of these genes by promoting mRNA distal polyadenylation. Because of its role in maintaining IBM1 expression, EDM2 is required for preventing CHG methylation in the bodies of thousands of genes.Our results thus increase the understanding of anti-silencing, genome methylation patterns, and regulation of alternative RNA processing by intronic heterochromatin. Col-0 and edm2-4 total genomic DNAs are extracted from leaves and then subjected to bisulfite convertion and sequencing in accordance with standard protocol.
Project description:A forward genetics screen led to the identification of the putative chromatin regulator EDM2 as a cellular anti-silencing factor and regulator of genome DNA methylation patterns. EDM2 contains a composite PHD finger domain that recognizes both active H3K4 and repressive H3K9 methylation marks at the intronic repeat elements in genes such as the histone H3K9 demethylase gene IBM1, and is necessary for maintaining the expression of these genes by promoting mRNA distal polyadenylation. Because of its role in maintaining IBM1 expression, EDM2 is required for preventing CHG methylation in the bodies of thousands of genes.Our results thus increase the understanding of anti-silencing, genome methylation patterns, and regulation of alternative RNA processing by intronic heterochromatin. Col-0 and edm2-4 total RNA are extracted from leaves and then polyA mRNAs are isolated for mRNA-seq.
Project description:A forward genetics screen led to the identification of the putative chromatin regulator EDM2 as a cellular anti-silencing factor and regulator of genome DNA methylation patterns. EDM2 contains a composite PHD finger domain that recognizes both active H3K4 and repressive H3K9 methylation marks at the intronic repeat elements in genes such as the histone H3K9 demethylase gene IBM1, and is necessary for maintaining the expression of these genes by promoting mRNA distal polyadenylation. Because of its role in maintaining IBM1 expression, EDM2 is required for preventing CHG methylation in the bodies of thousands of genes.Our results thus increase the understanding of anti-silencing, genome methylation patterns, and regulation of alternative RNA processing by intronic heterochromatin.
Project description:A forward genetics screen led to the identification of the putative chromatin regulator EDM2 as a cellular anti-silencing factor and regulator of genome DNA methylation patterns. EDM2 contains a composite PHD finger domain that recognizes both active H3K4 and repressive H3K9 methylation marks at the intronic repeat elements in genes such as the histone H3K9 demethylase gene IBM1, and is necessary for maintaining the expression of these genes by promoting mRNA distal polyadenylation. Because of its role in maintaining IBM1 expression, EDM2 is required for preventing CHG methylation in the bodies of thousands of genes.Our results thus increase the understanding of anti-silencing, genome methylation patterns, and regulation of alternative RNA processing by intronic heterochromatin.
Project description:In several eukaryotic organisms, heterochromatin (HC) in the introns of genes can regulate RNA processing, including polyadenylation, but the mechanism underlying this regulation is poorly understood. By promoting distal polyadenylation, the bromo-adjacent homology (BAH) domain-containing and RNA recognition motif-containing protein ASI1 and the H3K9me2-binding protein EDM2 are required for the expression of functional full-length transcripts of intronic HC-containing genes in Arabidopsis. Here we report that ASI1 and EDM2 form a protein complex in vivo via a bridge protein, ASI1-Immunoprecipitated Protein 1 (AIPP1), which is another RNA recognition motif-containing protein. The complex also may contain the Pol II CTD phosphatase CPL2, the plant homeodomain-containing protein AIPP2, and another BAH domain protein, AIPP3. As is the case with dysfunction of ASI1 and EDM2, dysfunction of AIPP1 impedes the use of distal polyadenylation sites at tested intronic HC-containing genes, such as the histone demethylase gene IBM1, resulting in a lack of functional full-length transcripts. A mutation in AIPP1 causes silencing of the 35S-SUC2 transgene and genome-wide CHG hypermethylation at gene body regions, consistent with the lack of full-length functional IBM1 transcripts in the mutant. Interestingly, compared with asi1, edm2, and aipp1 mutations, mutations in CPL2, AIPP2, and AIPP3 cause the opposite effects on the expression of intronic HC-containing genes and other genes, suggesting that CPL2, AIPP2, and AIPP3 may form a distinct subcomplex. These results advance our understanding of the interplay between heterochromatic epigenetic modifications and RNA processing in higher eukaryotes.
Project description:In eukaryotic cells, the constitutive heterochromatins, characterized by enrichments of DNA cytosine methylation and repressive histone modifications, are formed in both intergenic regions and gene body regions. The ASI1-AIPP1-EDM2 (AAE) complex has been shown to participates in the RNA polyadenylation (poly A) regulation of intronic heterochromatin-containing genes. While, how AAE complex components coordinately interacts with the chromatin and RNA remains largely unknown. Here, based on multi-omics analysis, we proved that ASI1 and EDM2 mostly target the common genomic regions and display high preference to intragenic heterochromatin within the transposable element (TE)-overlapping genes. Besides interplay with chromatin, ASI1 also displays high binding affinity to RNA transcripts from intragenic heterochromatin regions. Evidence from poly (A)-specific sequencing proved that AAE complex controls the choice of poly (A) sites not only in genes with intronic heterochromatin but also in heterochromatic TE-overlapping genes. Importantly, we revealed that AAE complex also participates in the alternative splicing of TE-overlapping gene RPP4. Moreover, evidences from gene expression and poly (A) sequencing revealed that RRM protein FPA functions antagonistically with AAE complex to control polyadenylation of histone demethylase gene IBM1 in locus-dependent manner. Taken together, our results provide fundamental evidences that AAE complex interacts with both the chromatin and RNA in the intragenic heterochromatin to regulate poly (A) site choice, and a bidirectional regulation mechanism of intragenic heterochromatin-dependent RNA processing exists in Arabidopsis. Our finding gained further insights into the molecular interaction pattern of AAE complex with targets and will help to better understand the complicated interplay between epigenetic modification-shaped chromatin and RNA processing.
Project description:In eukaryotic cells, the constitutive heterochromatins, characterized by enrichments of DNA cytosine methylation and repressive histone modifications, are formed in both intergenic regions and gene body regions. The ASI1-AIPP1-EDM2 (AAE) complex has been shown to participates in the RNA polyadenylation (poly A) regulation of intronic heterochromatin-containing genes. While, how AAE complex components coordinately interacts with the chromatin and RNA remains largely unknown. Here, based on multi-omics analysis, we proved that ASI1 and EDM2 mostly target the common genomic regions and display high preference to intragenic heterochromatin within the transposable element (TE)-overlapping genes. Besides interplay with chromatin, ASI1 also displays high binding affinity to RNA transcripts from intragenic heterochromatin regions. Evidence from poly (A)-specific sequencing proved that AAE complex controls the choice of poly (A) sites not only in genes with intronic heterochromatin but also in heterochromatic TE-overlapping genes. Importantly, we revealed that AAE complex also participates in the alternative splicing of TE-overlapping gene RPP4. Moreover, evidences from gene expression and poly (A) sequencing revealed that RRM protein FPA functions antagonistically with AAE complex to control polyadenylation of histone demethylase gene IBM1 in locus-dependent manner. Taken together, our results provide fundamental evidences that AAE complex interacts with both the chromatin and RNA in the intragenic heterochromatin to regulate poly (A) site choice, and a bidirectional regulation mechanism of intragenic heterochromatin-dependent RNA processing exists in Arabidopsis. Our finding gained further insights into the molecular interaction pattern of AAE complex with targets and will help to better understand the complicated interplay between epigenetic modification-shaped chromatin and RNA processing.
Project description:We perform genome-wide profiling of H3K9me2 in the Arabidopsis thaliana edm3 mutant. By var-seq, we identified EDM3 as a nuclear-localized protein featuring a single RNA-recognition motif (RRM). Similar to PHD finger-containing histone binding protein EDM2, EDM3 promotes high levels of H3K9me2 at RPP7 and controls transcripts of this NLR gene by suppressing proximal polyadenylation and promoting the synthesis of full-length RPP7-coding mRNAs. Our results showed that EDM3 affects levels of this epigenetic mark at a set of genes and transposons, the vast majority of which also feature EDM2-dependent H3K9me2.