Project description:Arabidopsis clf/swn mutant is able to form somatic embryos under the proper treatment conditions. In order to get more information about the process, we compared the expression profiles of wt and clf/swn in absence of treatment, Injury, Auxin, and Auxin+Injury treatments
Project description:The Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins form two protein complexes, PcG Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) and PRC2, which are key epigenetic regulators in eukaryotes. PRC2 represses gene expression by catalyzing the trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3). In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), CURLY LEAF (CLF) and SWINGER (SWN) are two major H3K27 methyltransferases and core components of PRC2, playing essential roles in plant growth and development. Despite their importance, genome-wide binding profiles of CLF and SWN have not been determined and compared yet. In this study, we generated transgenic lines expressing GFP-tagged CLF/SWN under their respective native promoters and used them for ChIP-seq analyses to profile the genome-wide distributions of CLF and SWN in Arabidopsis seedlings. We also profiled and compared the global H3K27me3 levels in wild-type (WT) and PcG mutants (clf, swn, and clf swn). Our data show that CLF and SWN bind to almost the same set of genes, except that SWN has a few hundred more targets. Two short DNA sequences, the GAGA-like and Telo-box-like motifs, were found enriched in the CLF and SWN binding regions. The H3K27me3 levels in clf, but not in swn, were markedly reduced compared with WT; and the mark was undetectable in the clf swn double mutant. Further, we profiled the transcriptomes in clf, swn, and clf swn, and compared with that in WT. Thus this work provides a useful resource for the plant epigenetics community for dissecting the functions of PRC2 in plant growth and development.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of 16-day-old seedlings of Arabidopsis wild type control and mutants is performed using AligentM-bM-^@M-^Ys Whole Arabidopsis Gene Expression Microarray (4x44K). Two-condition experiment, seedlings of wild type control vs. Mutant sdg25, sdg26, sdg25 sdg26, atx1, sdg26 atx1, clf, sdg26 clf, ldl1 ldl2, sdg25 ldl1 ldl2 or sdg26 ldl1 ldl2. Three biological replicates: 3 control, 3 each of the ten mutants, independently grown under 12h light/ 12h dark photoperiods and harvested.