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The tropical coral Pocillopora acuta has a mosaic DNA methylome, an unusual chromatin structure and shows histone H3 clipping

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Abstract Pocillopora acuta is a hermatypic coral with a worldwide distribution and a strong ecological importance. Anthropogenic disturbances and global warming threaten it. Thermal stress can induce coral bleaching, a phenomenon in which the mutualistic symbiosis between the coral polyps host and its endosymbiotic unicellular algae is disrupted, and can lead to the death of entire colonies. Previous works have shown that soma clonal colonies display different levels of survival depending on the environmental conditions they previously faced. Epigenetic mechanisms are good candidates to explain this phenomenon. The clonal nature of a colony and the possibility of generating genetically identical colonies through propagation make corals an attractive model to study the impact of the environment on the epigenome. However, until now, no work had been published on the P. acuta epigenome. One of the main problems is caused by the intracellular location of Symbiodinium, which makes it complicated to isolate coral chromatin free of contamination by endiosymbiotic biological material. Here, (i) we describe a simple method to purify P. acuta chromatin, (ii) we provide the first description of a coral methylome, with a mosaic pattern of cytosine methylation principally in a CpG context (4% of all CpG), and (iii) we show that P. acuta , but not all corals, has an unusual chromatin structure, and displays histone H3 clipping.
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hal-03239798 , version 1 (27-05-2021)

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David Roquis, Ariadna Picart Picolo, Kelly Brener Raffalli, Pascal Romans, Patrick Masanet, et al.. The tropical coral Pocillopora acuta has a mosaic DNA methylome, an unusual chromatin structure and shows histone H3 clipping. 2021. ⟨hal-03239798⟩
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