Transposons repressed by H3K27me3 were co-opted as cis-regulatory elements of H3K27me3 controlled protein coding genes during evolution of plants
T. Hisanaga, S. Wu, F. Romani, T. Kowar, R. Linterman, B. Jamge, S. A. Montgomery, E. Axelsson, T. Dierschke, J. Bowman, T. Fujiwara, S. Hirooka, S.-y. Miyagishima, L. Dolan, D. Schubert, F. Berger
The paper investigates how H3K27me3 marks transposons in different plant lineages and shows that these elements were co-opted as cis-regulatory elements for PRC2-controlled genes during evolution.
bioRxiv · Oct 24, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology