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CELL REPORTS
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 1156-1167Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.08.015
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- La Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Equipe Labellisee Ligue)
- PIC Programs
- European Commission [HEALTH-F4-2010-257082]
- ERC2009-AdG_20090506
- Institut de France
- EMBO Short Term Fellowship
- ANR JCJC Dynam'Het
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The equalization of pericentric heterochromatin from distinct parental origins following fertilization is essential for genome function and development. The recent implication of noncoding transcripts in this process raises questions regarding the connection between RNA and the nuclear organization of distinct chromatin environments. Our study addresses the interrelationship between replication and transcription of the two parental pericentric heterochromatin (PHC) domains and their reorganization during early embryonic development. We demonstrate that the replication of PHC is dispensable for its clustering at the late two-cell stage. In contrast, using parthenogenetic embryos, we show that pericentric transcripts are essential for this reorganization independent of the chromatin marks associated with the PHC domains. Finally, our discovery that only reverse pericentric transcripts are required for both the nuclear reorganization of PHC and development beyond the two-cell stage challenges current views on heterochromatin organization.
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