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Lup, S. D.

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bioRxiv2024

Overlapping roles of Arabidopsis INCURVATA11 and CUPULIFORMIS2 as Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 accessory proteins

Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) catalyzes the trimethylation of lysine 27 of histone H3 (H3K27me3) and plays a key role in epigenetic repression of gene expression in plants and animals. PRC2 core components have all been identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, with an expanding list of accessory proteins, some of which facilitate the recruitment of PRC2 to specific targets. INCURVATA11 (ICU11) is a 2-oxoglutarate and Fe2+-dependent dioxygenase that was previously shown to be a likely PRC2 accessory protein. In Tandem Affinity Purification (TAP)-based screens for interacting partners of ICU11 and its redundant paralog CUPULIFORMIS2 (CP2), we discovered that ICU11 interacts with four PRC2 core components, including EMBRYONIC FLOWER 2 (EMF2), and with the accessory proteins EMF1, TELOMERE REPEAT BINDING 1 (TRB1), TRB2, and TRB3. CP2 did not interact with PRC2 core components, nor with TRB1, TRB2, or TRB3, but did interact with TRB4 and TRB5. Both ICU11 and CP2 interacted with the nuclear proteins NAC DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 50 (NAC050), NAC052 and COP9 SIGNALOSOME SUBUNIT 1 (CSN1). Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) assays revealed that ICU11 and CP2 both interact with the PRC2 core components CURLY LEAF and SWINGER, and the accessory proteins LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1, TRB1, and TRB3. ICU11 and CP2 did not interact with each other. Beyond their phenotypes, transcriptomic profiles revealed strong similarities between emf2-3 and the double mutant icu11-5 cp2-1, as well as with mutants in PRC2 core components. A significant proportion of the genes mis-regulated in icu11-5 cp2-1 are known to harbor H3K27me3 repressive marks in the wild type. Our results provide further evidence that ICU11 acts as a PRC2 accessory protein, and strongly suggest that CP2 plays a similar role.

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bioRxiv2022

Versatile mapping-by-sequencing with Easymap v.2

MotivationMapping-by-sequencing combines Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) with classical genetic mapping by linkage analysis to establish gene-to-phenotype relationships. Although numerous tools have been developed to analyze NGS datasets, only a few are available for mapping-by-sequencing. One such tool is Easymap, a versatile, easy-to-use package that performs automated mapping of point mutations and small insertion/deletions (InDels), as well as large DNA insertions. ResultsHere, we describe Easymap v.2, which includes additional workflows to perform QTL-seq and variant density mapping analyses. Each mapping workflow can accommodate different experimental designs, including outcrossing and backcrossing, F2, M2, and M3 mapping populations, chemically induced mutation and natural variant mapping, input files containing single-end or paired-end reads of genomic or complementary DNA sequences, and alternative control sample files in FASTQ and VCF formats. Easymap v.2 can also be used as a variant analyzer in the absence of a mapping algorithm and includes a multi-threading option. Availability and implementationCode is available at http://genetics.edu.umh.es/resources/easymap/ Contactjlmicol@umh.es

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bioRxiv2021

Easymap: a user-friendly software package for rapid mapping by sequencing of point mutations and large insertions

Mapping-by-sequencing strategies combine next-generation sequencing (NGS) with classical linkage analysis, allowing rapid identification of the causal mutations of the phenotypes exhibited by mutants isolated in a genetic screen. Computer programs that analyze NGS data obtained from a mapping population of individuals derived from a mutant of interest in order to identify a causal mutation are available; however, the installation and usage of such programs requires bioinformatic skills, modifying or combining pieces of existing software, or purchasing licenses. To ease this process, we developed Easymap, an open-source program that simplifies the data analysis workflows from raw NGS reads to candidate mutations. Easymap can perform bulked segregant mapping of point mutations induced by ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) with DNA-seq or RNA-seq datasets, as well as tagged-sequence mapping for large insertions, such as transposons or T-DNAs. The mapping analyses implemented in Easymap have been validated with experimental and simulated datasets from different plant and animal model species. Easymap was designed to be accessible to all users regardless of their bioinformatics skills by implementing a user-friendly graphical interface, a simple universal installation script, and detailed mapping reports, including informative images and complementary data for assessment of the mapping results. One sentence summaryEasymap is a versatile user-friendly software tool that facilitates mapping-by-sequencing of large insertions and point mutations in plant and animal genomes

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