Chromatin architecture of two different strains of Artemisia annua reveals the alterations in interaction and gene expression

Main conclusion The hierarchical architecture of chromatins affects the gene expression level of glandular secreting trichomes and the artemisinin biosynthetic pathway-related genes, consequently bringing on huge differences in the content of artemisinin and its derivatives of A. annua. Abstract The plant of traditional Chinese medicine "Qinghao" is called Artemisia annua L. in Chinese Pharmacopoeia. High content and the total amount of artemisinin is the main goal of A. annua breeding, nevertheless, the change of chromatin organization during the artemisinin synthesis process has not been discovered yet. This study intended to find the roles of chromatin structure in the production of artemisinin through bioinformatics and experimental validation. Chromosome conformation capture analysis was used to scrutinize the interactions among chromosomes and categorize various scales of chromatin during artemisinin synthesis in A. annua. To confirm the effect of the changes in chromatin structure, Hi-C and RNA-sequencing were performed on two different strains to find the correlation between chromatin structure and gene expression levels on artemisinin synthesis progress and regulation. Our results revealed that the frequency of intra-chromosomal interactions was higher in the inter-chromosomal interactions between the root and leaves on a high artemisinin production strain (HAP) compared to a low artemisinin production strain (LAP). We found that compartmental transition was connected with interactions among different chromatins. Interestingly, glandular secreting trichomes (GSTs) and the artemisinin biosynthetic pathway (ABP) related genes were enriched in the areas which have the compartmental transition, reflecting the regulation of artemisinin synthesis. Topologically associated domain boundaries were associated with various distributions of genes and expression levels. Genes associated with ABP and GST in the adjacent loop were highly expressed, suggesting that epigenetic regulation plays an important role during artemisinin synthesis and glandular secreting trichomes production process. Chromatin structure could show an important status in the mechanisms of artemisinin synthesis process in A. annua..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:258

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Planta - 258(2023), 4 vom: 05. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liao, Xuejiao [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Baosheng [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Xiaofeng [VerfasserIn]
He, Wenrui [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Conglian [VerfasserIn]
Pei, Jin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jiushi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yongqing [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jiang [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shilin [VerfasserIn]

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Gene expression
Gene regulation
Hi-C technology
Hierarchical architecture

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10.1007/s00425-023-04223-y

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SPR052985946