Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Heat stress-induced transposon activation correlates with 3D chromatin organization rearrangement in Arabidopsis

  • Linhua Sun,
  • Yuqing Jing,
  • Xinyu Liu,
  • Qi Li,
  • Zhihui Xue,
  • Zhukuan Cheng,
  • Daowen Wang,
  • Hang He,
  • Weiqiang Qian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15809-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Heat stress can activate heterochromatin-associated transposon elements (TEs). Here, the authors show that heat stress leads to global rearrangement of 3D genome and TEs activation closely correlates with 3D chromatin organization rearrangement in Arabidopsis.