NDLI: Paramutagenicity of a p1 epiallele in maize

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Author	Goettel, Wolfgang Messing, Joachim
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Complex silencing mechanisms in plants and other kingdoms target transposons, repeat sequences, invasive viral nucleic acids and transgenes, but also endogenous genes and genes involved in paramutation. Paramutation occurs in a heterozygote when a transcriptionally active allele heritably adopts the epigenetic state of a transcriptionally and/or post-transcriptionally repressed allele. P1-rr and its silenced epiallele P1-pr, which encode a Myb-like transcription factor mediating pigmentation in floral organs of Zea mays, differ in their cytosine methylation pattern and chromatin structure at a complex enhancer site. Here, we tested whether P1-pr is able to heritably silence its transcriptionally active P1-rr allele in a heterozygote and whether DNA methylation is associated with the establishment and maintenance of P1-rr silencing. We found that P1-pr participates in paramutation as the repressing allele and P1-rr as the sensitive allele. Silencing of P1-rr is highly variable compared to the inducing P1-pr resulting in a wide range of gene expression. Whereas cytosine methylation at P1-rr is negatively correlated with transcription and pigment levels after segregation of P1-pr, methylation lags behind the establishment of the repressed p1 gene expression. We propose a model in which P1-pr paramutation is triggered by changing epigenetic states of transposons immediately adjacent to a P1-rr enhancer sequence. Considering the vast amount of transposable elements in the maize genome close to regulatory elements of genes, numerous loci could undergo paramutation-induced allele silencing, which could also have a significant impact on breeding agronomically important traits.
Starting Page	159
Ending Page	177
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00405752
Journal	Theoretical and Applied Genetics
Volume Number	126
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14322242
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2012-09-18
Publisher Place	Berlin/Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Plant Breeding/Biotechnology Plant Genetics & Genomics Agriculture Plant Biochemistry Biochemistry Biotechnology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Genetics Medicine Biotechnology Agronomy and Crop Science

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