Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Arabidopsis AGDP1 links H3K9me2 to DNA methylation in heterochromatin

  • Cuijun Zhang,
  • Xuan Du,
  • Kai Tang,
  • Zhenlin Yang,
  • Li Pan,
  • Peipei Zhu,
  • Jinyan Luo,
  • Yuwei Jiang,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Huafang Wan,
  • Xingang Wang,
  • Fengkai Wu,
  • W. Andy Tao,
  • Xin-Jian He,
  • Heng Zhang,
  • Ray A. Bressan,
  • Jiamu Du,
  • Jian-Kang Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06965-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation are two linked epigenetic marks of silenced chromatin in plants that depend on the activity of CMT3/2 and SUVH4/5/6. Here the authors identify AGDP1 as an H3K9me2-binding protein required for heterochromatic non-CG DNA methylation, H3K9 dimethylation, and transcriptional silencing.