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NATURE PLANTS
Volume 5, Issue 8, Pages 822-832Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0479-8
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670779]
- National Key Program for Research and Development [2016YFD0100202]
- Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences [CAAS-ASTIP-2015-OCRI]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Non-profit Scientific Institution [1610172018011]
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The non-random three-dimensional (3D) organization of the genome in the nucleus is critical to gene regulation and genome function. Using high-throughput chromatin conformation capture, we generated chromatin interaction maps for Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea at a high resolution and characterized the conservation and divergence of chromatin organization in these two species. Large-scale chromatin structures, including A/B compartments and topologically associating domains, are notably conserved between B. rapa and B. oleracea, yet their KNOT structures are highly divergent. We found that genes retained in less fractionated subgenomes exhibited stronger interaction strengths, and diploidization-resistant duplicates retained in pairs or triplets are more likely to be colocalized in both B. rapa and B. oleracea. These observations suggest that spatial constraint in duplicated genes is correlated to their biased retention in the diploidization process. In addition, we found strong similarities in the epigenetic modification and Gene Ontology terms of colocalized paralogues, which were largely conserved across B. rapa and B. oleracea, indicating functional constraints on their 3D positioning in the nucleus. This study presents an investigation of the spatial organization of genomes in Brassica and provides insights on the role of 3D organization in the genome evolution of this genus.
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