Identification of Highly Repetitive Enhancers with Long-range Regulation Potential in Barley via STARR-seq  

作　　者：Wanlin Zhou Haoran Shi Zhiqiang Wang Yuxin Huang Lin Ni Xudong Chen Yan Liu Haojie Li Caixia Li Yaxi Liu 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,Sichuan Agricultural University,Chengdu 611130,China [2]Triticeae Research Institute,Sichuan Agricultural University,Chengdu 611130,China [3]Chengdu Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences,Chengdu 611130,China

出　　处：《Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics》2024年第2期107-120,共14页基因组蛋白质组与生物信息学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the grants from the Key Program of Sichuan Province Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.2022NSFSC0015);the Key R&D Program of Sichuan Province(Grant Nos.2021YFN0034 and 2021YFG0028),China.

摘　　要：Enhancers are DNA sequences that can strengthen transcription initiation.However,the global identification of plant enhancers is complicated due to uncertainty in the distance and orientation of enhancers,especially in species with large genomes.In this study,we performed self-transcribing active regulatory region sequencing(STARR-seq)for the first time to identify enhancers across the barley genome.A total of 7323 enhancers were successfully identified,and among 45 randomly selected enhancers,over 75%were effective as validated by a dual-luciferase reporter assay system in the lower epidermis of tobacco leaves.Interestingly,up to 53.5%of the barley enhancers were repetitive sequences,especially transposable elements(TEs),thus reinforcing the vital role of repetitive enhancers in gene expression.Both the common active mark H3K4me3 and repressive mark H3K27me3 were abundant among the barley STARR-seq enhancers.In addition,the functional range of barley STARR-seq enhancers seemed much broader than that of rice or maize and extended to±100 kb of the gene body,and this finding was consistent with the high expression levels of genes in the genome.This study specifically depicts the unique features of barley enhancers and provides available barley enhancers for further utilization.

关 键 词：BARLEY ENHANCER Transposable element Gene expression Repetitive sequence 

分 类 号：S512.3[农业科学—作物学]