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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on September 1, 2006.
Genetics, Vol. 174, 1161-1171, November 2006, Copyright © 2006
doi:10.1534/genetics.106.063974
A Histone Methylation-Dependent DNA Methylation Pathway Is Uniquely Impaired by Deficiency in Arabidopsis S-Adenosylhomocysteine Hydrolase
Lori Mull1, Michelle L. Ebbs2 and Judith Bender3
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
3 Corresponding author: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205.
E-mail: jbender{at}mail.jhmi.edu
S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (SAH) is a key enzyme in the maintenance of methylation homeostasis in eukaryotes because it is needed to metabolize the by-product of transmethylation reactions, S-adenosylhomocysteine (AdoHcy), which causes by-product inhibition of methyltransferases (MTase's). Complete loss of SAH function is lethal. Partial loss of SAH function causes pleiotropic effects including developmental abnormalities and reduced cytosine methylation. Here we describe a novel partial-function missense allele of the Arabidopsis SAH1 gene that causes loss of cytosine methylation specifically in non-CG contexts controlled by the CMT3 DNA MTase and transcriptional reactivation of a silenced reporter gene, without conferring developmental abnormalities. The CMT3 pathway depends on histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3 mK9) to guide DNA methylation. Our results suggest that this pathway is uniquely sensitive to SAH impairment because of its requirement for two transmethylation reactions that can both be inhibited by AdoHcy. Our results further suggest that gene silencing pathways involving an interplay between histone and DNA methylation in other eukaryotes can be selectively impaired by controlled SAH downregulation.
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