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NATURE PLANTS
卷 2, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2015.222
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- SOKENDAI
- JSPS [15K18585]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31330008]
- NSF [IOS-1542703]
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1542703] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [1542703] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K18585] Funding Source: KAKEN
Little is known about patterns of genic DNA methylation across the plant kingdom or about the evolutionary processes that shape them. To characterize gene-body methylation (gbM) within exons, we have gathered single-base resolution methylome data that span the phylogenetic breadth of land plants. We find that a basal land plant, Marchantia polymorpha, lacks any evident signal of gbM within exons, but conifers have high levels of both CG and CHG (where H is A, C or T) methylation in expressed genes. To begin to understand the evolutionary forces that shape gbM, we first tested for correlations in methylation levels across orthologues(1,2). Genic CG methylation levels, but not CHG or CHH levels, are correlated across orthologues for species as distantly related as ferns and angiosperms. Hence, relative levels of CG methylation are a consistent property across genes, even for species that diverged similar to 400 million years ago(3,4). In contrast, genic CHG methylation correlates with genome size, suggesting that the host epigenetic response to transposable elements also affects genes. Altogether, our data indicate that the evolutionary forces acting on DNA methylation vary substantially across species, genes and methylation contexts.
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