期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 236, 期 5, 页码 1888-1907出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18395
关键词
Arabidopsis; DNA methylation; epigenetics signatures; galls; giant cells; Meloidogyne javanica; siRNAs; tomato; transposons
资金
- Spanish Government [RED2018-02407-T, PID2019-105924RB-I00]
- MCIN/AEI
- Castilla-La Mancha Government [SBPLY/17/180501/000287, SBPLY/21/180501/000033]
- UCLM intramural funds
- University of Castilla-La Mancha
- European Social Fund
- EMBO Short-Term Fellowship
- Fundacion Tatiana Perez de Guzman el Bueno
- DEFRA [125034/359149/3]
- BBSRC [BB/R011311/1, BB/N021908/1, BB/S006397/1]
- individual MCSA fellowship
This study revealed that early galls induced by root-knot nematodes are hypermethylated, with giant cells being the major contributors. Medium/late galls showed no global increase in DNA methylation but had differentially methylated regions redistributed. DNA methylation and demethylation mutants exhibited impaired resistance/tolerance to nematodes, with siRNAs accumulating at hypermethylated DMRs, potentially involved in repression of retrotransposons.
Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) induce giant cells (GCs) within galls which are characterized by large-scale gene repression at early stages. However, the epigenetic mechanism(s) underlying gene silencing is (are) still poorly characterized. DNA methylation in Arabidopsis galls induced by Meloidogyne javanica was studied at crucial infection stages (3 d post-infection (dpi) and 14 dpi) using enzymatic, cytological, and sequencing approaches. DNA methyltransferase mutants (met1, cmt2, cmt3, cmt2/3, drm1/2, ddc) and a DNA demethylase mutant (ros1), were analyzed for RKN resistance/tolerance, and galls were characterized by confocal microscopy and RNA-seq. Early galls were hypermethylated, and the GCs were found to be the major contributors to this hypermethylation, consistent with the very high degree of gene repression they exhibit. By contrast, medium/late galls showed no global increase in DNA methylation compared to uninfected roots, but exhibited large-scale redistribution of differentially methylated regions (DMRs). In line with these findings, it was also shown that DNA methylation and demethylation mutants showed impaired nematode reproduction and gall/GC-development. Moreover, siRNAs that were exclusively present in early galls accumulated at hypermethylated DMRs, overlapping mostly with retrotransposons in the CHG/CG contexts that might be involved in their repression, contributing to their stability/genome integrity. Promoter/gene methylation correlated with differentially expressed genes encoding proteins with basic cell functions. Both mechanisms are consistent with reprogramming host tissues for gall/GC formation. In conclusion, RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM; DRM2/1) pathways, maintenance methyltransferases (MET1/CMT3) and demethylation (ROS1) appear to be prominent mechanisms driving a dynamic regulation of the epigenetic landscape during RKN infection.
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