Antagonistic histone H2A variants and autonomous heterochromatin formation shape epigenomic patterns in Arabidopsis
Shoko Oda, Sayaka Tominaga, Shumpei Takeuchi, Akihisa Osakabe, Akira Kawabe, Frédéric Berger, Tetsuji Kakutani, Taiko Kim To
The paper shows that H2A variants guide heterochromatin formation in Arabidopsis, with H2A.W promoting and H2A.Z inhibiting it, while pericentromeric regions form heterochromatin autonomously.
Nature Communications · Jun 30, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics