期刊
GENES
卷 12, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes12050640
关键词
wild soybean; open chromatin region (OCR); ATAC-seq; enhancer
资金
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council Area of Excellence Scheme [AoE/M-403/16]
- Lo Kwee-Seong Biomedical Research Fund
- Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research identified 22,333 OCRs in wild soybean leaves, enriched at gene TSS and correlated with gene expression. These OCRs contained TF-binding motifs, forming a potential regulatory network. The activation histone mark H3K4me3 was closely associated with OCRs, while the repressive mark H3K27me3 was not, suggesting the importance of OCR duplication for plant genome architecture and gene regulation.
Transcription activation is tightly associated with the openness of chromatin, which allows direct contact between transcriptional regulators, such as transcription factors, and their targeted DNA for downstream gene activation. However, the annotation of open chromatin regions (OCRs) in the wild soybean (Glycine soja) genome is limited. We performed assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) and successfully identified 22,333 OCRs in the leaf of W05 (a wild soybean accession). These OCRs were enriched in gene transcription start sites (TSS) and were positively correlated with downstream gene expression. Several known transcription factor (TF)-binding motifs were also enriched at the OCRs. A potential regulatory network was constructed using these transcription factors and the OCR-marked genes. Furthermore, by overlapping the OCR distribution with those of histone modifications from chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq), we found that the distribution of the activation histone mark, H3K4me3, but not that of the repressive H3K27me3 mark, was closely associated with OCRs for gene activation. Several putative enhancer-like distal OCRs were also found to overlap with LincRNA-encoding loci. Moreover, our data suggest that homologous OCRs could potentially influence homologous gene expression. Hence, the duplication of OCRs might be essential for plant genome architecture as well as for regulating gene expression.
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