Journal
GENOME BIOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1746-8
Keywords
Bread wheat; Allohexaploid; Epigenomic map; Chromatin signature; Regulatory element; Promoter; Enhancer
Funding
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA08020102, XDB27010302]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31571579, 31770285]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [KYYJ201808]
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BackgroundBread wheat is an allohexaploid species with a 16-Gb genome that has large intergenic regions, which presents a big challenge for pinpointing regulatory elements and further revealing the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms. Chromatin profiling to characterize the combinatorial patterns of chromatin signatures is a powerful means to detect functional elements and clarify regulatory activities in human studies.ResultsIn the present study, through comprehensive analyses of the open chromatin, DNA methylome, seven major chromatin marks, and transcriptomic data generated for seedlings of allohexaploid wheat, we detected distinct chromatin architectural features surrounding various functional elements, including genes, promoters, enhancer-like elements, and transposons. Thousands of new genic regions and cis-regulatory elements are identified based on the combinatorial pattern of chromatin features. Roughly 1.5% of the genome encodes a subset of active regulatory elements, including promoters and enhancer-like elements, which are characterized by a high degree of chromatin openness and histone acetylation, an abundance of CpG islands, and low DNA methylation levels. A comparison across sub-genomes reveals that evolutionary selection on gene regulation is targeted at the sequence and chromatin feature levels. The divergent enrichment of cis-elements between enhancer-like sequences and promoters implies these functional elements are targeted by different transcription factors.ConclusionsWe herein present a systematic epigenomic map for the annotation of cis-regulatory elements in the bread wheat genome, which provides new insights into the connections between chromatin modifications and cis-regulatory activities in allohexaploid wheat.
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