Publication Date:
2015-04-02
Description:
Changes in histone posttranslational modifications are associated with epigenetic states that define distinct patterns of gene expression. It remains unclear whether epigenetic information can be transmitted through histone modifications independently of specific DNA sequence, DNA methylation, or RNA interference. Here we show that, in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, ectopically induced domains of histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me), a conserved marker of heterochromatin, are inherited through several mitotic and meiotic cell divisions after removal of the sequence-specific initiator. The putative JmjC domain H3K9 demethylase, Epe1, and the chromodomain of the H3K9 methyltransferase, Clr4/Suv39h, play opposing roles in maintaining silent H3K9me domains. These results demonstrate how a direct "read-write" mechanism involving Clr4 propagates histone modifications and allows histones to act as carriers of epigenetic information.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4385470/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4385470/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ragunathan, Kaushik -- Jih, Gloria -- Moazed, Danesh -- GM072805/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM072805/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007226/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Apr 3;348(6230):1258699. doi: 10.1126/science.1258699. Epub 2014 Nov 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. ; Department of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. danesh@hms.harvard.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25831549" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenine/metabolism
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Catalytic Domain
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Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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*Epigenesis, Genetic
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Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
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Genes, Reporter
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Heterochromatin/genetics/metabolism
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Histones/*metabolism
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Humans
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Lysine/*metabolism
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Methyltransferases/genetics/*metabolism
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Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
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Operator Regions, Genetic
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Protein Processing, Post-Translational/*genetics
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Repressor Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Schizosaccharomyces/*enzymology/*genetics
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Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Tetracycline/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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