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Genome wide inherited modifications of the tomato epigenome by trans-activated bacterial CG methyltransferase

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Epigenetic variation is mediated by epigenetic marks such as DNA methylation occurring in all cytosine contexts in plants. CG methylation plays a critical role in silencing transposable elements and regulating gene expression. The establishment of CG methylation occurs via the RNA-directed DNA methylation pathway and CG methylation maintenance relies on METHYLTRANSFERASE1, the homologue of the mammalian DNMT1. Here, we examined the capacity to stably alter the tomato genome methylome by a bacterial CG-specific M.SssI methyltransferase expressed through the LhG4/pOP transactivation system. Methylome analysis of M.SssI expressing plants revealed that their euchromatic genome regions are specifically hypermethylated in the CG context, and so are most of their genes. However, changes in gene expression were observed only with a set of genes exhibiting a greater susceptibility to CG hypermethylation near their transcription start site. Unlike gene rich genomic regions, our analysis revealed that heterochromatic regions are slightly hypomethylated at CGs only. Notably, some M.SssI -induced hypermethylation persisted even without the methylase or transgenes, indicating inheritable epigenetic modification. Collectively our findings suggest that heterologous expression of M.SssI can create new inherited epigenetic variations and changes in the methylation profiles on a genome wide scale. This open avenues for the conception of epigenetic recombinant inbred line populations with the potential to unveil agriculturally valuable tomato epialleles.
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Bapatla Kesava Pavan Kumar, Sébastien Beaubiat, Chandra Bhan Yadav, Ravit Eshed, Tzahi Arazi, et al.. Genome wide inherited modifications of the tomato epigenome by trans-activated bacterial CG methyltransferase. bioRxiv - PREPRINT, 2024, ⟨10.1101/2024.04.17.589930⟩. ⟨hal-04558228⟩
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