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Specific chromatin changes mark lateral organ founder cells in the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem

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Title:Specific chromatin changes mark lateral organ founder cells in the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem
Creators Name:Frerichs, A., Engelhorn, J., Altmüller, J., Gutierrez-Marcos, J. and Werr, W.
Abstract:Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) were combined to analyse the chromatin state of lateral organ founder cells (LOFCs) in the peripheral zone of the Arabidopsis apetala1-1 cauliflower-1 double mutant inflorescence meristem. On a genome-wide level, we observed a striking correlation between transposase hypersensitive sites (THSs) detected by ATAC-seq and DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs). The mostly expanded DHSs were often substructured into several individual THSs, which correlated with phylogenetically conserved DNA sequences or enhancer elements. Comparing chromatin accessibility with available RNA-seq data, THS change configuration was reflected by gene activation or repression and chromatin regions acquired or lost transposase accessibility in direct correlation with gene expression levels in LOFCs. This was most pronounced immediately upstream of the transcription start, where genome-wide THSs were abundant in a complementary pattern to established H3K4me3 activation or H3K27me3 repression marks. At this resolution, the combined application of FACS/ATAC-seq is widely applicable to detect chromatin changes during cell-type specification and facilitates the detection of regulatory elements in plant promoters.
Keywords:ATAC-Seq, Cell Sorting, Cell-Type Specification, Chromatin, DORNRÖSCHEN-LIKE, Lateral Organ Founder Cells
Source:Journal of Experimental Botany
ISSN:0022-0957
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Volume:70
Number:15
Page Range:3867-3879
Date:1 August 2019
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz181
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