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Kalinava, Natallia. The role of heterochromatin in RNAi-mediated transcription repression in C. elegans. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30K2CSK

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TitleThe role of heterochromatin in RNAi-mediated transcription repression in C. elegans
NameKalinava, Natallia (author); Gu, Sam Guoping (chair); Driscoll, Monica (internal member); Gartenberg, Marc (internal member); Hampsey, Michael (outside member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2018
Other Date2018-01 (degree)
SubjectCell and Developmental Biology, RNA interference
Extent1 online resource (x, 108 p. : ill.)
DescriptionThe germline nuclear RNAi pathway in C. elegans can lead to histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation (H3K9me3) and transcriptional silencing at target genes. H3K9me3 heterochromatin induced by either exogenous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) or endogenous siRNA (endo-siRNA) is highly specific to the target loci and is trans-generationally heritable. Despite these features, the role of H3K9me3 in siRNA-mediated establishment and maintenance of transcriptional silencing and its inheritance in C. elegans is unclear. It is also not known which of H3K9me3 histone methyltransferases (HMT) function in an RNAi-dependent manner. In this study, we took combined genetic, biochemical, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, cell biology and computational approaches to address these questions. Here we demonstrate that siRNA-mediated H3K9me3 requires combined activities of three H3K9 histone methyltransferases (HMTs): MET-2, SET-25, and SET-32. Surprisingly, loss of high-magnitude of H3K9me3 in set-32; met-2 set-25 mutant worms has no effect on the transcriptional silencing at the native nuclear RNAi targets. In addition, the exogenous dsRNA-induced transcriptional silencing and heritable RNAi at oma-1, a well-established nuclear RNAi reporter gene, are completely resistant to the loss of H3K9me3. Repair of germline nuclear Argonaut HRDE-1 fully restore silencing of nuclear RNAi targets. However, loss of SET-32 showed trans-generational delay in re-establishment of transcriptional silencing. We propose that H3K9me3 is dispensable for the maintenance of siRNA-mediated transcriptional silencing. However, H3K9me HMT SET-32 promotes the onset of nuclear RNAi-mediated transcriptional silencing.  
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Natallia Kalinava
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30K2CSK
Languageeng
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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