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VAL1 acts as an assembly platform co-ordinating co-transcriptional repression and chromatin regulation at Arabidopsis FLC

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  • Pawel Mikulski

    (John Innes Centre
    University of Oxford)

  • Philip Wolff

    (John Innes Centre)

  • Tiancong Lu

    (John Innes Centre
    Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Mathias Nielsen

    (John Innes Centre)

  • Elsa Franco Echevarria

    (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

  • Danling Zhu

    (John Innes Centre
    Southern University of Science and Technology)

  • Julia I. Questa

    (John Innes Centre
    Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics)

  • Gerhard Saalbach

    (Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre)

  • Carlo Martins

    (Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre)

  • Caroline Dean

    (John Innes Centre
    MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

Abstract

Polycomb (PcG) silencing is crucial for development, but how targets are specified remains incompletely understood. The cold-induced Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) silencing of Arabidopsis thaliana FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) provides an excellent system to elucidate PcG regulation. Association of the DNA binding protein VAL1 to FLC PcG nucleation regionis an important step. VAL1 co-immunoprecipitates APOPTOSIS AND SPLICING ASSOCIATED PROTEIN (ASAP) complex and PRC1. Here, we show that ASAP and PRC1 are necessary for co-transcriptional repression and chromatin regulation at FLC. ASAP mutants affect FLC transcription in warm conditions, but the rate of FLC silencing in the cold is unaffected. PRC1-mediated H2Aub accumulation increases at the FLC nucleation region during cold, but unlike the PRC2-delivered H3K27me3, does not spread across the locus. H2Aub thus involved in the transition to epigenetic silencing at FLC, facilitating H3K27me3 accumulation and long-term epigenetic memory. Overall, our work highlights the importance of VAL1 as an assembly platform co-ordinating activities necessary for epigenetic silencing at FLC.

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  • Pawel Mikulski & Philip Wolff & Tiancong Lu & Mathias Nielsen & Elsa Franco Echevarria & Danling Zhu & Julia I. Questa & Gerhard Saalbach & Carlo Martins & Caroline Dean, 2022. "VAL1 acts as an assembly platform co-ordinating co-transcriptional repression and chromatin regulation at Arabidopsis FLC," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-32897-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32897-7
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