Accessible Gene Borders Establish a Core Structural Unit for Chromatin Architecture in Arabidopsis

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2023 Oct 26

PMID 37884483

Authors

Hongwoo Lee

Pil Joon Seo

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Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) chromatin structure is linked to transcriptional regulation in multicellular eukaryotes including plants. Taking advantage of high-resolution Hi-C (high-throughput chromatin conformation capture), we detected a small structural unit with 3D chromatin architecture in the Arabidopsis genome, which lacks topologically associating domains, and also in the genomes of tomato, maize, and Marchantia polymorpha. The 3D folding domain unit was usually established around an individual gene and was dependent on chromatin accessibility at the transcription start site (TSS) and transcription end site (TES). We also observed larger contact domains containing two or more neighboring genes, which were dependent on accessible border regions. Binding of transcription factors to accessible TSS/TES regions formed these gene domains. We successfully simulated these Hi-C contact maps via computational modeling using chromatin accessibility as input. Our results demonstrate that gene domains establish basic 3D chromatin architecture units that likely contribute to higher-order 3D genome folding in plants.

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