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The tumour suppressor brain tumour (Brat) regulates linker histone dBigH1 expression in the Drosophila female germline and the early embryo
Author(s) -
Paula Climent-Cantó,
Albert Carbonell,
Srividya Tamirisa,
László Henn,
Salvador Pérez-Montero,
Imre Boros,
Fernando Azorı́n
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
open biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.078
H-Index - 53
ISSN - 2046-2441
DOI - 10.1098/rsob.200408
Subject(s) - biology , germline , gene silencing , somatic cell , chromatin , histone , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , epigenetics , drosophila embryogenesis , rna binding protein , embryo , embryogenesis , messenger rna , gene
Linker histones H1 are essential chromatin components that exist as multiple developmentally regulated variants. In metazoans, specific H1s are expressed during germline development in a tightly regulated manner. However, the mechanisms governing their stage-dependent expression are poorly understood. Here, we address this question inDrosophila , which encodes for a single germline-specific dBigH1 linker histone. We show that during female germline lineage differentiation, dBigH1 is expressed in germ stem cells and cystoblasts, becomes silenced during transit-amplifying (TA) cystocytes divisions to resume expression after proliferation stops and differentiation starts, when it progressively accumulates in the oocyte. We find that dBigH1 silencing during TA divisions is post-transcriptional and depends on the tumour suppressor Brain tumour (Brat), an essential RNA-binding protein that regulates mRNA translation and stability. Like other oocyte-specific variants, dBigH1 is maternally expressed during early embryogenesis until it is replaced by somatic dH1 at the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT). Brat also mediates dBigH1 silencing at MZT. Finally, we discuss the situation in testes, where Brat is not expressed, but dBigH1 is translationally silenced too.

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