A fruitful chromatin harvest: Meeting summary of the Second European Workshop on Plant Chromatin 2011 in Versailles, France

In September 2011, the Second European Workshop on Plant Chromatin took place in Versailles, France. The workshop covered a range of topics related to plant chromatin biology, including regulation of gene expression by Polycomb group proteins, chromatin dynamics, reconfiguration of epigenetic marks in response to various cues and chromatin assembly. Here, we summarize some of the highlights discussed during the meeting.

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[5]  Rein Aasland,et al.  The CW domain, a new histone recognition module in chromatin proteins , 2011, The EMBO journal.

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[11]  Xiaoyu Zhang,et al.  Genome-wide mapping of Arabidopsis thaliana origins of DNA replication and their associated epigenetic marks , 2011, Nature Structural &Molecular Biology.

[12]  Ming-Ming Zhou,et al.  The SUVR4 Histone Lysine Methyltransferase Binds Ubiquitin and Converts H3K9me1 to H3K9me3 on Transposon Chromatin in Arabidopsis , 2011, PLoS genetics.

[13]  Andreas Hecker,et al.  Alanine Zipper-Like Coiled-Coil Domains Are Necessary for Homotypic Dimerization of Plant GAGA-Factors in the Nucleus and Nucleolus , 2011, PloS one.

[14]  Caroline Dean,et al.  Regulation of the floral repressor gene FLC: the complexity of transcription in a chromatin context. , 2011, Current opinion in plant biology.

[15]  Nathalie Simoncello,et al.  Control of Flowering and Cell Fate by LIF2, an RNA Binding Partner of the Polycomb Complex Component LHP1 , 2011, PloS one.

[16]  Robert L. Fischer,et al.  Regulation of imprinted gene expression in Arabidopsis endosperm , 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[17]  U. Conrath,et al.  Chromatin modification acts as a memory for systemic acquired resistance in the plant stress response , 2011, EMBO reports.

[18]  S. Henikoff,et al.  The INTACT method for cell type–specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana , 2011, Nature Protocols.

[19]  Luise H. Brand,et al.  DPI-ELISA: a fast and versatile method to specify the binding of plant transcription factors to DNA in vitro , 2010, Plant Methods.

[20]  Guillaume J. Filion,et al.  Systematic Protein Location Mapping Reveals Five Principal Chromatin Types in Drosophila Cells , 2010, Cell.

[21]  A. Berr,et al.  Arabidopsis SET DOMAIN GROUP2 Is Required for H3K4 Trimethylation and Is Crucial for Both Sporophyte and Gametophyte Development[C][W] , 2010, Plant Cell.

[22]  Huy Q. Dinh,et al.  Epigenetic Regulation of Repetitive Elements Is Attenuated by Prolonged Heat Stress in Arabidopsis[W][OA] , 2010, Plant Cell.

[23]  A. Berr,et al.  Arabidopsis Histone Methyltransferase SET DOMAIN GROUP8 Mediates Induction of the Jasmonate/Ethylene Pathway Genes in Plant Defense Response to Necrotrophic Fungi1[W][OA] , 2010, Plant Physiology.

[24]  J. Fajkus,et al.  Dysfunction of Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 Induces Shortening of Telomeres and Loss of 45S rDNA in Arabidopsis thaliana[W][OA] , 2010, Plant Cell.

[25]  J. A. Jarillo,et al.  EARLY IN SHORT DAYS 7 (ESD7) encodes the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase epsilon and is required for flowering repression through a mechanism involving epigenetic gene silencing. , 2010, The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology.

[26]  L. Hennig,et al.  Green chromatin dynamics in Zurich: Meeting summary based on the European Workshop on Plant Chromatin 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland , 2010, Epigenetics.

[27]  M. Kubo,et al.  A polycomb repressive complex 2 gene regulates apogamy and gives evolutionary insights into early land plant evolution , 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[28]  S. Rensing,et al.  Regulation of stem cell maintenance by the Polycomb protein FIE has been conserved during land plant evolution , 2009, Development.

[29]  J. Reyes,et al.  The beauty of being a variant: H2A.Z and the SWR1 complex in plants. , 2009, Molecular plant.

[30]  Alexandra M. E. Jones,et al.  A PHD-Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 triggers the epigenetic silencing of FLC during vernalization , 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[31]  Z. R. Sung,et al.  EMBRYONIC FLOWER1 Participates in Polycomb Group–Mediated AG Gene Silencing in Arabidopsis[W] , 2008, The Plant Cell Online.

[32]  M. Robertson,et al.  The Arabidopsis thaliana vernalization response requires a polycomb-like protein complex that also includes VERNALIZATION INSENSITIVE 3 , 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.