Genomic occurrence analysis of PRMT6-dependent H3R2me2a

Protein arginine methyltransferase 6 (PRMT6) is an epigenetic regulator of fundamental cellular processes, such as gene expression and DNA repair. Asymmetric dimethylation of histone H3 at arginine 2 (H3R2me2a) is the major histone modification catalyzed by PRMT6. To identify the genome-wide deposition and transcriptional impact of H3R2me2a, we established PRMT6 deletion in a human cell model of neural differentiation. These knockout cells show severe neural differentiation defects. ChIP-seq profiling reveals that H3R2me2a is present at promoter as well as non-promoter sites in a PRMT6-dependent manner. Loss of H3R2me2a causes enhanced H3K4me3 deposition and target gene transcription supporting a genome-wide repressive nature of H3R2me2a. Intriguingly, the non-promoter H3R2me2a peaks co-localize with active enhancer marks, such as H3K4me1 and H3K27ac. Examining of PRMT6-dependent H3R2me2a deposition in CRISPR control and knockout PRMT6 with neighboring histone modification.