Latest Epigenetic Research in Plants
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2024) | Viewed by 2333
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Interests: epigenetics; histones; histone chaperones; post-translational modifications of histones
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Dear Colleagues,
Eukaryotic DNA is compacted within chromatin. This sophisticated nucleoproteic structure bears the epigenetic information and is made of DNA wrapped around histone octamers. The histone core is composed by a H3/H4 tetramer flanked by two H2A/H2B dimers. Besides, the H1 linker is associated to the “linker” DNA. Histones can be classified in two categories: (i) canonical histones expressed during the S-phase and (ii) histone variants that can replace canonical isoforms and are expressed throughout the cell cycle. Histones harbor post-translational modifications (PTMs) such as acetylation or methylation. DNA also display chemical modifications such as cytosine methylation that participates to the epigenetic information, besides PTMs and histone isoforms and small RNAs. Histone PTMs and DNA modifications are deposited or removed by various enzymes and histone isoforms are incorporated in chromatin by histone chaperones. Photosynthetic organisms, i.e., land plants and algae (Rhodophytes, Chlorophyta and Chromalveolata for brown algae) are highly diverse organisms that belong to independent lineages sharing the ability to do photosynthesis in various and fluctuating environments.
The Special Edition “Latest Epigenetic Research in Plants” will focus on the molecular players that participates to the epigenetic mechanisms. Plants are plastic organisms that present unique epigenetic mechanisms and constitute interesting models to untangle epigenetic mechanisms operating in various environmental cues.
We invite submission of works that investigate these mechanisms by various and combined approaches, such as biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and omics approaches, as well as review articles that offer a comprehensive view of the current knowledge and its limits or method papers with new techniques to analyze these mechanisms.
Dr. Céline Duc
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chromatin
- histones
- post-translational modification
- histone chaperones
- DNA modification
- small RNAs
- epigenomics
- epigenetics
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