Chromatin organization in early land plants reveals an ancestral association between H3K27me3, transposons, and constitutive heterochromatin
Sean Akira Montgomery, Yasuhiro Tanizawa, Bence Gálik, Nan Wang, Tasuku Ito, Takako Mochizuki, Svetlana Akimcheva, John L. Bowman, Valérie Cognat, Laurence Maréchal‐Drouard, Heinz Ekker, Syuan‐Fei Hong, Takayuki Kohchi, Shih‐Shun Lin, Li-Yu Daisy Liu, , Frédéric Berger
The paper analyzes chromatin organization in the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha, revealing an ancestral role of H3K27me3 in transposon silencing and heterochromatin formation.
Current Biology · Jan 30, 2020Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology