Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

H3K27me3 demethylases alter HSP22 and HSP17.6C expression in response to recurring heat in Arabidopsis

  • Nobutoshi Yamaguchi,
  • Satoshi Matsubara,
  • Kaori Yoshimizu,
  • Motohide Seki,
  • Kouta Hamada,
  • Mari Kamitani,
  • Yuko Kurita,
  • Yasuyuki Nomura,
  • Kota Nagashima,
  • Soichi Inagaki,
  • Takamasa Suzuki,
  • Eng-Seng Gan,
  • Taiko To,
  • Tetsuji Kakutani,
  • Atsushi J. Nagano,
  • Akiko Satake,
  • Toshiro Ito

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23766-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Acclimation to high temperature increases tolerance of heat shock in plants. Here the authors show that JUMONJI H3K27me3 demethylases are needed for heat acclimation in Arabidopsis and act at loci encoding HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS to facilitate induction upon heat stress.