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Epigenetic Control of Cell Division

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Epigenetic Memory and Control in Plants

Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants ((SIGCOMM,volume 18))

Abstract

Posttranslational modification (PTM) of histone tails plays a critical role in the dynamic of chromatin and chromosomes. However, emerging evidence suggests that individual histone modifications do not reliably predict a single functional output [Sims and Reinberg (Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 9:815–820, 2008)]. In plants, the cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation of histone H3 has been described best; it is hyperphosphorylated at serines 10/28 and at threonines 3/11/32 during both mitosis and meiosis in patterns that are specifically coordinated in both space and time. Although this posttranslational modification is highly conserved, data show that the chromosomal distribution of individual modifications can differ between groups of eukaryotes. We describe the function of plant Aurora and Haspin kinases which have the capacity to phosphorylate H3 and discuss the cross talk between phosphorylation and other PTMs.

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A.H. is supported by the DFG (SFB 648). We apologize to all our colleagues who contributed to the field but could not be cited due to space limitation.

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Houben, A., Demidov, D., Karimi-Ashtiyani, R. (2013). Epigenetic Control of Cell Division. In: Grafi, G., Ohad, N. (eds) Epigenetic Memory and Control in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35227-0_8

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