Wear, E. E., Song, J., Zynda, G., LeBlanc, C., Lee, T. J., Mickelson-Young, L., Concia, L., Mulvaney, P., Szymanski, E. S., Allen, G. C., Martienssen, R., Vaughn, M. W., Hanley-Bowdoin, L., Thompson, W. (September 2017) Genomic analysis of the DNA replication timing program during mitotic S phase in maize (Zea mays L.) root tips. Plant Cell, 29 (9). pp. 2126-49. ISSN 1040-4651
Abstract
All plants and animals must replicate their DNA, using a regulated process to ensure that their genomes are completely and accurately replicated. DNA replication timing programs have been extensively studied in yeast and animal systems, but much less is known about the replication programs of plants. We report a novel adaptation of the "Repli-seq" assay for use in intact root tips of maize (Zea mays) that include several different cell lineages, and present replication profiles from cells in early, mid, and late S phase of the mitotic cell cycle. This represents the first genomic analysis of replication timing in a crop species, and the first in any plant species to characterize replication at the whole-genome level. Maize root tips have a complex replication timing program, including regions of distinct early, mid and late-S replication that each constitute between 20-24% of the genome, as well as other loci corresponding to ~32% of the genome that exhibit replication activity in two different time windows. Analyses of genomic, transcriptional, and chromatin features of the euchromatic portion of the maize genome provide evidence for a gradient of early replicating, open chromatin that transitions gradually to less open and less transcriptionally active chromatin replicating in mid S phase. Our genomic level analysis also demonstrated that the centromere core replicates in mid S, before heavily compacted classical heterochromatin, including pericentromeres and knobs, which replicate during late S phase.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA replication organism description > plant > maize organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell functions > cell cycle organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > organelles, types and functions > mitosis |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Martienssen lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | September 2017 |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Aug 2017 19:19 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2017 16:02 |
| PMCID: | PMC5635974 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/35261 |
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