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First published online August 12, 2005; 10.1105/tpc.105.034165

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The Plant Cell 17:2439-2453 (2005)
© 2005 American Society of Plant Biologists

Monomethyl Histone H3 Lysine 4 as an Epigenetic Mark for Silenced Euchromatin in Chlamydomonas{boxw}

Karin van Dijka, Katherine E. Marleyb, Byeong-ryool Jeonga, Jianping Xuc, Jennifer Hessonc, Ronald L. Cernyd, Jakob H. Waterborge and Heriberto Ceruttic,1

a Department of Plant Pathology and Plant Science Initiative, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588-0666
b Biology Department, Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, 68333
c School of Biological Sciences and Plant Science Initiative, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588-0666
d Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588-0362
e School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110-2499

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail hcerutti1{at}unl.edu; fax 402-472-8722.

Histone Lys methylation plays an important role in determining chromatin states and is mostly catalyzed by SET domain–containing proteins. The outcome, transcriptional repression or activation, depends on the methylated histone residue, the degree of methylation, and the chromatin context. Dimethylation or trimethylation of histone H3 Lys 4 (H3K4me2 or H3K4me3) has been correlated with transcriptionally competent/active genes. However, H3K4 methylation has also been implicated in gene silencing. This dualistic nature of the H3K4 methyl mark has thus far remained unresolved. In the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Mut11p, related to a subunit of trithorax-like methyltransferase complexes, is required for transcriptional silencing. Here, we show that Mut11p interacts with conserved components of H3K4 methyltransferase machineries, and an affinity-purified Mut11p complex(es) methylates histones H3, H2A, and H4. Moreover, a Mut11 mutant showed global loss of monomethylated H3K4 (H3K4me1) and an increase in dimethylated H3K4. By chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis, this strain also displayed substantial reduction in H3K4me1 and enrichment in H3K4me2 associated with transcriptionally derepressed genes, transgenes, and retrotransposons. RNA interference–mediated suppression of Set1, encoding an H3K4 methyltransferase, induced similar phenotypes, but of lower magnitude, and no detectable increase in H3K4me2. Together, our results suggest functional differentiation between dimethyl H3K4 and monomethyl H3K4, with the latter operating as an epigenetic mark for repressed euchromatin.




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