A new role for histone demethylases in the maintenance of plant genome integrity
J. Antunez-Sanchez, M. Naish, J. S. Ramirez-Prado, S. Ohno, Y. Huang, A. Dawson, D. Manza-Mianza, F. Ariel, C. Raynaud, A. Wibowo, J. Daron, M. Ueda, D. Latrasse, R. K. Slotkin, D. Weigel, , J. Gutierrez-Marcos
This study identifies ELF6 and REF6 as JMJ histone demethylases in Arabidopsis that maintain H3K27me3 and H3K27me1 homeostasis, preventing epigenetic imprints and transposon activation during sexual reproduction.
bioRxiv · Mar 2, 2020Plant Biology