TY - JOUR
T1 - Arabidopsis MSH1 mutation alters the epigenome and produces heritable changes in plant growth
AU - Virdi, Kamaldeep S.
AU - Laurie, John D.
AU - Xu, Ying Zhi
AU - Yu, Jiantao
AU - Shao, Mon Ray
AU - Sanchez, Robersy
AU - Kundariya, Hardik
AU - Wang, Dong
AU - Riethoven, Jean Jack M.
AU - Wamboldt, Yashitola
AU - Arrieta-Montiel, Maria P.
AU - Shedge, Vikas
AU - Mackenzie, Sally A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Mahnaz Akhavan and the UCLA BSCRC BioSequencing Core for high-throughput Illumina sequencing for bisulfite sequencing and the Indiana University Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics for assistance with genome sequencing. We thank Mei Chen, E. Omar Lozano and Stephen Luebker for technical support and Drs Jeffrey Mower and Michael Fromm for valuable discussions during the course of this work. We acknowledge the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of DOE (DE-FG02-10ER16189) for funding the physiological and phenotype studies, NSF (IOS IOS 1126935) for the epigenetic studies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1088661) for the support of methylome sequencing.
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PY - 2015/2/27
Y1 - 2015/2/27
N2 - Plant phenotypes respond to environmental change, an adaptive capacity that is at least partly transgenerational. However, epigenetic components of this interplay are difficult to measure. Depletion of the nuclear-encoded protein MSH1 causes dramatic and heritable changes in plant development, and here we show that crossing these altered plants with isogenic wild type produces epi-lines with heritable, enhanced growth vigour. Pericentromeric DNA hypermethylation occurs in a subset of msh1 mutants, indicative of heightened transposon repression, while enhanced growth epi-lines show large chromosomal segments of differential CG methylation, reflecting genome-wide reprogramming. When seedlings are treated with 5-azacytidine, root growth of epi-lines is restored to wild-type levels, implicating hypermethylation in enhanced growth. Grafts of wild-type floral stems to mutant rosettes produce progeny with enhanced growth and altered CG methylation strikingly similar to epi-lines, indicating a mobile signal when MSH1 is downregulated, and confirming the programmed nature of methylome and phenotype changes.
AB - Plant phenotypes respond to environmental change, an adaptive capacity that is at least partly transgenerational. However, epigenetic components of this interplay are difficult to measure. Depletion of the nuclear-encoded protein MSH1 causes dramatic and heritable changes in plant development, and here we show that crossing these altered plants with isogenic wild type produces epi-lines with heritable, enhanced growth vigour. Pericentromeric DNA hypermethylation occurs in a subset of msh1 mutants, indicative of heightened transposon repression, while enhanced growth epi-lines show large chromosomal segments of differential CG methylation, reflecting genome-wide reprogramming. When seedlings are treated with 5-azacytidine, root growth of epi-lines is restored to wild-type levels, implicating hypermethylation in enhanced growth. Grafts of wild-type floral stems to mutant rosettes produce progeny with enhanced growth and altered CG methylation strikingly similar to epi-lines, indicating a mobile signal when MSH1 is downregulated, and confirming the programmed nature of methylome and phenotype changes.
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U2 - 10.1038/ncomms7386
DO - 10.1038/ncomms7386
M3 - Article
C2 - 25722057
AN - SCOPUS:84924072832
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 6
JO - Nature communications
JF - Nature communications
M1 - 6386
ER -