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Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes
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Histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) are key regulators of chromatin states, influencing gene expression, epigenetic memory and transposable element repression across eukaryotic genomes. While many hPTMs are evolutionarily conserved, the extent to which the chromatin states they define are similarly preserved remains unclear. Here we developed a combinatorial indexing chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method to simultaneously profile specific hPTMs across diverse eukaryotic lineages, including amoebozoans, rhizarians, discobans and cryptomonads. Our analyses revealed highly conserved euchromatin states at active gene promoters and gene bodies. In contrast, we observed diverse configurations of repressive heterochromatin states associated with silenced genes and transposable elements, characterized by various combinations of hPTMs such as H3K9me3, H3K27me3 and/or different H3K79 methylations. These findings suggest that, while core hPTMs are ancient and broadly conserved, their functional readout has diversified throughout eukaryotic evolution, shaping lineage-specific chromatin landscapes. This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukaryotic species. Despite the conservation of hPTMs across eukaryotes, the functional chromatin states they define are not always conserved.
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