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Epigenetics

Histone acylations respond to plant stress

Lu Y, Xu Q, Liu Y, et al. · Genome biology · 2018

Open access · cc by · source: Europe PMC

Rice histone butyrylation and crotonylation mark active chromatin and shift under starvation/submergence.

Study at a glance

Design
Animal / in-vitro — MS and ChIP-seq mapping of histone Kbu/Kcr in rice vs H3K9ac under metabolic stress
N
Plant chromatin proteomics/ChIP-seq study — no single primary analytic N in stored text
Population
Rice (and related plants) under stress conditions
Outcome
Distribution and stress dynamics of histone butyrylation/crotonylation

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Key findings

Many Kcr sites on H3/H4; Kbu/Kcr resemble acetylation distribution and change with metabolic stress.

Methodology

Mapped Kbu/Kcr sites by MS and ChIP-seq in rice and compared to H3K9ac with transcriptomes under stress.

Limitations

Does not prove every site is required for a specific stress phenotype.

How this study connects

Role on claims

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  • Several papers tagged for this method barely use qPCR as the headline assay. Cryptosporidium oocyst work is a transcriptome of environmental persistence; FECR1 function was tested with dCas9 chromatin immunoprecipitation and TET1/DNMT1 regulation in MDA-MB231 cells; rice histone Kbu/Kcr maps came from mass spectrometry and ChIP-seq. Any qPCR in those studies is at most a supporting check.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • Lexicon tagging also pulls in studies whose core methods are RNA-seq, CasIP or ChIP-seq/MS. Cryptosporidium metabolic inferences, FECR1 promoter RNA pull-downs, and rice histone acylations should not be read as qPCR papers that measured the same class of target.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • Many papers in the CRISPR index mention CRISPR or Cas proteins in passing while the actual experiment is something else (APEX2 proximity labelling, pan-genome presence/absence, ChIP-seq of histone acylations, scRNA-seq of endoderm). Those hits show why a body-count lexicon over-recruits; they are not additional editing results.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • In rice, MS plus ChIP-seq mapped histone lysine butyrylation and crotonylation: many Kcr sites on H3/H4, with Kbu/Kcr resembling acetylation distribution and changing with metabolic stress. Occupancy dynamics are not proof that every site is required for a named stress phenotype.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • Genuine MS designs still disagree about what is being counted. APEX2 inventories membrane-face neighbours in living cells (22 OMM; 72 ERM); caveolar work quantifies a purified coat; Rab5 work maps three ubiquitin lysines; rice work maps histone acylations under stress. A 'proteomics paper' can be spatial, stoichiometric, or epigenetic, and those outputs are not interchangeable.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • SupportsChIP-seqmethod

    Rice histone lysine butyrylation and crotonylation were mapped by mass spectrometry and ChIP-seq and compared with H3K9ac and stress transcriptomes. Many Kcr sites sit on H3/H4; Kbu/Kcr resemble acetylation distribution and change with metabolic stress. The maps do not prove every site is required for a specific stress phenotype.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • SupportsChIP-seqmethod

    Only the rice histone-acylation paper is clearly genome-wide ChIP-seq of chromatin marks (Kbu/Kcr versus H3K9ac under stress). Foxp3 work is candidate-locus ChIP; FECR1 is CasIP of promoter RNAs; Yoruba data are 27K methylation arrays. Treating them as one ChIP-seq method overstates shared technology.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • SupportsChIP-seqmethod

    What 'epigenetic activation' means also disagrees. Rice Kcr occupancy resembles acetylation and moves with metabolic stress but is not proven necessary at each site. FECR1 recruits TET1/DNMT1 logic at FLI1. Foxp3 stability tracks TSDR demethylation rather than a mapped histone peak. Those are different causal sketches.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

Open questions

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