H3K9me2 orchestrates inheritance of spatial positioning of peripheral heterochromatin through mitosis
- University of Pennsylvania, United States
Abstract
Cell-type-specific 3D organization of the genome is unrecognizable during mitosis. It remains unclear how essential positional information is transmitted through cell division such that a daughter cell recapitulates the spatial genome organization of the parent. Lamina-associated domains (LADs) are regions of repressive heterochromatin positioned at the nuclear periphery that vary by cell type and contribute to cell-specific gene expression and identity. Here we show that histone 3 lysine 9 dimethylation (H3K9me2) is an evolutionarily conserved, specific mark of nuclear peripheral heterochromatin and that it is retained through mitosis. During mitosis, phosphorylation of histone 3 serine 10 temporarily shields the H3K9me2 mark allowing for dissociation of chromatin from the nuclear lamina. Using high-resolution 3D immuno-oligoFISH, we demonstrate that H3K9me2-enriched genomic regions, which are positioned at the nuclear lamina in interphase cells prior to mitosis, re-associate with the forming nuclear lamina before mitotic exit. The H3K9me2 modification of peripheral heterochromatin ensures that positional information is safeguarded through cell division such that individual LADs are re-established at the nuclear periphery in daughter nuclei. Thus, H3K9me2 acts as a 3D architectural mitotic guidepost. Our data establish a mechanism for epigenetic memory and inheritance of spatial organization of the genome.
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Priya Sivaramakrishnan
Jonathan A Epstein
Funding
National Institutes of Health (R35 HL140018)
- Jonathan A Epstein
National Institutes of Health (DP2-HL147123)
- Raj Jain
National Institutes of Health (R35 GM127093)
- John Isaac Murray
Cotswold Foundation
- Jonathan A Epstein
WW Smith Endowed Chair
- Jonathan A Epstein
Burroughs Welcome Career Award for Medical Scientists and the Gilead Research Scholars Program
- Raj Jain
National Science Foundation (CMMI-1548571)
- Raj Jain
- Jonathan A Epstein
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2019, Poleshko et al.
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H3K9me2 orchestrates inheritance of spatial positioning of peripheral heterochromatin through mitosis
eLife 8:e49278.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49278
