Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening

Naturally-occurring epimutants are rare and have mainly been described in plants. However how these mutants maintain their epigenetic marks and how they are inherited remain unknown. Here we report that CHROMOMETHYLASE3 (SlCMT3) and other methyltransferases are required for maintenance of a spontane...

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Main Authors: Chen, Weiwei, Kong, Junhua, Qin, Cheng, Yu, Sheng, Tan, Jinjuan, Chen, Yun-ru, Wu, Chaoqun, Wang, Hui, Shi, Yan, Li, Chunyang, Li, Bin, Zhang, Pengcheng, Wang, Ying, Lai, Tongfei, Yu, Zhiming, Zhang, Xian, Shi, Nongnong, Wang, Huizhong, Osman, Toba, Liu, Yule, Manning, Kenneth, Jackson, Stephen, Rolin, Dominique, Zhong, Silin, Seymour, Graham B., Gallusci, Philippe, Hong, Yiguo
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author Chen, Weiwei
Kong, Junhua
Qin, Cheng
Yu, Sheng
Tan, Jinjuan
Chen, Yun-ru
Wu, Chaoqun
Wang, Hui
Shi, Yan
Li, Chunyang
Li, Bin
Zhang, Pengcheng
Wang, Ying
Lai, Tongfei
Yu, Zhiming
Zhang, Xian
Shi, Nongnong
Wang, Huizhong
Osman, Toba
Liu, Yule
Manning, Kenneth
Jackson, Stephen
Rolin, Dominique
Zhong, Silin
Seymour, Graham B.
Gallusci, Philippe
Hong, Yiguo
author_facet Chen, Weiwei
Kong, Junhua
Qin, Cheng
Yu, Sheng
Tan, Jinjuan
Chen, Yun-ru
Wu, Chaoqun
Wang, Hui
Shi, Yan
Li, Chunyang
Li, Bin
Zhang, Pengcheng
Wang, Ying
Lai, Tongfei
Yu, Zhiming
Zhang, Xian
Shi, Nongnong
Wang, Huizhong
Osman, Toba
Liu, Yule
Manning, Kenneth
Jackson, Stephen
Rolin, Dominique
Zhong, Silin
Seymour, Graham B.
Gallusci, Philippe
Hong, Yiguo
author_sort Chen, Weiwei
building Nottingham Research Data Repository
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description Naturally-occurring epimutants are rare and have mainly been described in plants. However how these mutants maintain their epigenetic marks and how they are inherited remain unknown. Here we report that CHROMOMETHYLASE3 (SlCMT3) and other methyltransferases are required for maintenance of a spontaneous epimutation and its cognate Colourless non-ripening (Cnr) phenotype in tomato. We screened a series of DNA methylation-related genes that could rescue the hypermethylated Cnr mutant. Silencing of the developmentally-regulated SlCMT3 gene results in increased expression of LeSPL-CNR, the gene encodes the SBP-box transcription factor residing at the Cnr locus and triggers Cnr fruits to ripen normally. Expression of other key ripening-genes was also up-regulated. Targeted and whole-genome bisulfite sequencing showed that the induced ripening of Cnr fruits is associated with reduction of methylation at CHG sites in a 286-bp region of the LeSPL-CNR promoter, and a decrease of DNA methylation in differentially-methylated regions associated with the LeMADS-RIN binding sites. Our results indicate that there is likely a concerted effect of different ethyltransferases at the Cnr locus and the plant-specific SlCMT3 is essential for sustaining Cnr epi-allele. Maintenance of DNA methylation dynamics is critical for the somatic stability of Cnr epimutation and for the inheritance of tomato non-ripening phenotype.
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spelling nottingham-285502020-05-08T10:45:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28550/ Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening Chen, Weiwei Kong, Junhua Qin, Cheng Yu, Sheng Tan, Jinjuan Chen, Yun-ru Wu, Chaoqun Wang, Hui Shi, Yan Li, Chunyang Li, Bin Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Ying Lai, Tongfei Yu, Zhiming Zhang, Xian Shi, Nongnong Wang, Huizhong Osman, Toba Liu, Yule Manning, Kenneth Jackson, Stephen Rolin, Dominique Zhong, Silin Seymour, Graham B. Gallusci, Philippe Hong, Yiguo Naturally-occurring epimutants are rare and have mainly been described in plants. However how these mutants maintain their epigenetic marks and how they are inherited remain unknown. Here we report that CHROMOMETHYLASE3 (SlCMT3) and other methyltransferases are required for maintenance of a spontaneous epimutation and its cognate Colourless non-ripening (Cnr) phenotype in tomato. We screened a series of DNA methylation-related genes that could rescue the hypermethylated Cnr mutant. Silencing of the developmentally-regulated SlCMT3 gene results in increased expression of LeSPL-CNR, the gene encodes the SBP-box transcription factor residing at the Cnr locus and triggers Cnr fruits to ripen normally. Expression of other key ripening-genes was also up-regulated. Targeted and whole-genome bisulfite sequencing showed that the induced ripening of Cnr fruits is associated with reduction of methylation at CHG sites in a 286-bp region of the LeSPL-CNR promoter, and a decrease of DNA methylation in differentially-methylated regions associated with the LeMADS-RIN binding sites. Our results indicate that there is likely a concerted effect of different ethyltransferases at the Cnr locus and the plant-specific SlCMT3 is essential for sustaining Cnr epi-allele. Maintenance of DNA methylation dynamics is critical for the somatic stability of Cnr epimutation and for the inheritance of tomato non-ripening phenotype. Nature Publishing Group 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28550/1/srep09192.pdf Chen, Weiwei, Kong, Junhua, Qin, Cheng, Yu, Sheng, Tan, Jinjuan, Chen, Yun-ru, Wu, Chaoqun, Wang, Hui, Shi, Yan, Li, Chunyang, Li, Bin, Zhang, Pengcheng, Wang, Ying, Lai, Tongfei, Yu, Zhiming, Zhang, Xian, Shi, Nongnong, Wang, Huizhong, Osman, Toba, Liu, Yule, Manning, Kenneth, Jackson, Stephen, Rolin, Dominique, Zhong, Silin, Seymour, Graham B., Gallusci, Philippe and Hong, Yiguo (2015) Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening. Scientific Reports, 5 (9192). pp. 1-7. ISSN 2045-2322 http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150317/srep09192/full/srep09192.html doi:10.1038/srep09192 doi:10.1038/srep09192
spellingShingle Chen, Weiwei
Kong, Junhua
Qin, Cheng
Yu, Sheng
Tan, Jinjuan
Chen, Yun-ru
Wu, Chaoqun
Wang, Hui
Shi, Yan
Li, Chunyang
Li, Bin
Zhang, Pengcheng
Wang, Ying
Lai, Tongfei
Yu, Zhiming
Zhang, Xian
Shi, Nongnong
Wang, Huizhong
Osman, Toba
Liu, Yule
Manning, Kenneth
Jackson, Stephen
Rolin, Dominique
Zhong, Silin
Seymour, Graham B.
Gallusci, Philippe
Hong, Yiguo
Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening
title Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening
title_full Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening
title_fullStr Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening
title_full_unstemmed Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening
title_short Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation Colourless non-ripening
title_sort requirement of chromomethylase3 for somatic inheritance of the spontaneous tomato epimutation colourless non-ripening
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