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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19621-z
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- MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI [15H05955, 15H05962, 19H03259, 15H05776, 18K14743]
- Research Grant in Natural Sciences of Mitsubishi Foundation
- Novartis Foundation for the Promotion of Science
- Japan Science Society
- JST CREST [JPMJCR16G1]
- Advanced Bioimaging Support in MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI [16H06280]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19H03259, 15H05776, 15H05955, 15H05962, 18K14743] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The nuclear lamina plays an important role in the regulation of chromatin organization and gene positioning in animals. CROWDED NUCLEI (CRWN) is a strong candidate for the plant nuclear lamina protein in Arabidopsis thaliana but its biological function was largely unknown. Here, we show that CRWNs localize at the nuclear lamina and build the meshwork structure. Fluorescence in situ hybridization and RNA-seq analyses revealed that CRWNs regulate chromatin distribution and gene expression. More than 2000 differentially expressed genes were identified in the crwn1crwn4 double mutant. Copper-associated (CA) genes that form a gene cluster on chromosome 5 were among the downregulated genes in the double mutant exhibiting low tolerance to excess copper. Our analyses showed this low tolerance to copper was associated with the suppression of CA gene expression and that CRWN1 interacts with the CA gene locus, enabling the locus to localize at the nuclear lamina under excess copper conditions. The nuclear lamina regulates chromatin organization and gene positioning. Here the authors show that CROWDED NUCLEI proteins contribute to the meshwork lamina structure in Arabidopsis nuclei and regulate copper tolerance by promoting lamina association and expression of copper response genes.
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