Evidence for multiple forms of heritable RNA silencing
Chey, M.; Raman, P.; Ettefa, F.; Jose, A. M.
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Heritable gene silencing has been proposed to rely on DNA methylation, histone modifications, and/or non-coding RNAs in different organisms. Here we demonstrate that multiple RNA-mediated mechanisms with distinct and easily detectable molecular signatures can underlie heritable silencing of the same open-reading frame in the nematode C. elegans. Using two-gene operons, we reveal three cases of gene-selective silencing that provide support for the transmission of heritable epigenetic changes through different mechanisms of RNA silencing independent of changes in chromatin that would affect all genes of an operon equally. Different heritable epigenetic states of a gene were associated with distinct populations of stabilized mRNA fragments with untemplated poly-UG (pUG) tails, which are known intermediates of RNA silencing. These pUG signatures provide a way to distinguish the multiple mechanisms that can drive heritable RNA silencing of a single gene.
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