{"title":"Mechanisms of Inheritance of Chromatin States: From Yeast to Human.","authors":"Hiten D Madhani","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-070524-091904","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article I review mechanisms that underpin epigenetic inheritance of CpG methylation and histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) in chromatin in fungi and mammals. CpG methylation can be faithfully inherited epigenetically at some sites for a lifetime in vertebrates and, remarkably, can be propagated for millions of years in some fungal lineages. Transmission of methylation patterns requires maintenance-type DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) that recognize hemimethylated CpG DNA produced by replication. DNMT1 is the maintenance enzyme in vertebrates; we recently identified DNMT5 as an ATP-dependent CpG maintenance enzyme found in fungi and protists. In vivo, CpG methylation is coupled to H3K9me. H3K9me is itself reestablished after replication via local histone H3-H4 tetramer recycling involving mobile and nonmobile chaperones, de novo nucleosome assembly, and read-write mechanisms that modify naive nucleosomes. Additional proteins recognize hemimethylated CpG or fully methylated CpG-containing motifs and enhance restoration of methylation by recruiting and/or activating the maintenance methylase.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annual Review of Biophysics","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-070524-091904","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BIOPHYSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this article I review mechanisms that underpin epigenetic inheritance of CpG methylation and histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) in chromatin in fungi and mammals. CpG methylation can be faithfully inherited epigenetically at some sites for a lifetime in vertebrates and, remarkably, can be propagated for millions of years in some fungal lineages. Transmission of methylation patterns requires maintenance-type DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) that recognize hemimethylated CpG DNA produced by replication. DNMT1 is the maintenance enzyme in vertebrates; we recently identified DNMT5 as an ATP-dependent CpG maintenance enzyme found in fungi and protists. In vivo, CpG methylation is coupled to H3K9me. H3K9me is itself reestablished after replication via local histone H3-H4 tetramer recycling involving mobile and nonmobile chaperones, de novo nucleosome assembly, and read-write mechanisms that modify naive nucleosomes. Additional proteins recognize hemimethylated CpG or fully methylated CpG-containing motifs and enhance restoration of methylation by recruiting and/or activating the maintenance methylase.
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The Annual Review of Biophysics, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the field of biophysics, including macromolecular structure, function and dynamics, theoretical and computational biophysics, molecular biophysics of the cell, physical systems biology, membrane biophysics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and emerging techniques.