Wen Hui SHEN

Ses publications

• ZHOU N., LI C., XIE W., LIANG N., WANG J., WANG B., WU J., SHEN W.H., LIU B. and DONG A.

  Histone methylation readers MRG1/2 interact with PIF4 to promote thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis

  Cell Reports, 43:113726, 2024. | DOI : 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113726

• YANG C., ZHU T., ZHOU N., HUANG S., ZENG Y., JIANG W., XIE Y., SHEN W.H. and LI L.

  PIF7-mediated epigenetic reprogramming promotes the transcriptional response to shade in Arabidopsis

  EMBO Journal, 42:e111472, 2023. | DOI : 10.15252/embj.2022111472

• WU J., YANG Y., WANG J., WANG Y., YIN L., AN Z., DU K., ZHU Y., QI J., SHEN W.H. and DONG A.

  Histone chaperones AtChz1A and AtChz1B are required for H2A.Z deposition and interact with the SWR1 chromatin-remodeling complex in Arabidopsis thaliana

  New Phytologist, 239:189-207, 2023. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.18940

• KANG H., LIU Y., FAN T., MA J., WU D., HEITZ T., SHEN W.H. and ZHU Y.

  Arabidopsis CHROMATIN REMODELING 19 acts as a transcriptional repressor and contributes to plant pathogen resistance

  Plant Cell, 34:1100-1116, 2022. | DOI : 10.1093/plcell/koab318

• WANG B., LUO Q., LI Y., DU K., WU Z., LI T., SHEN W.H., HUANG C.H., GAN J. and DONG A.

  Structural insights into partner selection for MYB and bHLH transcription factor complexes

  Nature Plants, 8:1108-1117, 2022. | DOI : 10.1038/s41477-022-01223-w

• KANG H., FAN T., WU J., ZHU Y. and SHEN W.H.

  Histone modification and chromatin remodeling in plant response to pathogens

  Frontiers in Plant Science, 13:986940, 2022. | DOI : 10.3389/fpls.2022.986940

• LUO Q., MO J., CHEN H., HU Z., WU B., WU J., LIANG Z., XIE W., DU K., PENG M., LI Y., LI T., ZHANG Y., SHI X., SHEN W.H., SHI Y., DONG A., WANG H. and MA J.

  Structural insights into molecular mechanism for N6-adenosine methylation by MT-A70 family methyltransferase METTL4

  Nature Communications, 13:5636, 2022. | DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-33277-x

• CHEN K., DU K., SHI Y., YIN L., SHEN W.H., YU Y., LIU B. and DONG A.

  H3K36 methyltransferase SDG708 enhances drought tolerance by promoting abscisic acid biosynthesis in rice

  New Phytologist, 230:1967-1984, 2021. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.17290

• GUO Z., LI Z., LIU Y., AN Z., PENG M., SHEN W.H., DONG A. and YU Y.

  MRG1/2 histone methylation readers and HD2C histone deacetylase associate in repression of the florigen gene FT to set a proper flowering time in response to day-length changes

  New Phytologist, 227:1453-1466, 2020. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.16616

• AN Z., YIN L., LIU Y., PENG M., SHEN W.H. and DONG A.

  The histone methylation readers MRG1/MRG2 and the histone chaperones NRP1/NRP2 associate in fine-tuning Arabidopsis flowering time

  Plant Journal, 103:1010-1024, 2020. | DOI : 10.1111/tpj.14780

• ZHANG X., MENARD R., LI Y., CORUZZI G., HEITZ T., SHEN W.H. and BERR A.

  Arabidopsis SDG8 Potentiates the Sustainable Transcriptional Induction of the Pathogenesis-Related Genes PR1 and PR2 During Plant Defense Response

  Frontiers in Plant Science, 11:277, 2020. | DOI : 10.3389/fpls.2020.00277

• DU K., LUO Q., YIN L., WU J., LIU Y., GAN J., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  OsChz1 acts as a histone chaperone in modulating chromatin organization and genome function in rice

  Nature Communications, 11(1):5717, 2020. | DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-19586-z

• LUO Q., WANG B., WU Z., JIANG W., WANG Y., DU K., ZHOU N., ZHENG L., GAN J., SHEN W.H., MA J. and DONG A.

  NAP1-RELATED PROTEIN1 (NRP1) has multiple interaction modes for chaperoning histones H2A-H2B

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117:30391-30399, 2020. | DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2011089117

• YANG C., YIN L., XIE F., MA M., HUANG S., ZENG Y., SHEN W.H., DONG A. and LI L.

  AtINO80 represses photomorphogenesis by modulating nucleosome density and H2A.Z incorporation in light-related genes

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(52):33679-33688, 2020. | DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2001976117

• ZHAO W., NEYT P., VAN LIJSEBETTENS M., SHEN W.H. and BERR A.

  Interactive and non-interactive roles of histone H2B monoubiquitination and H3K36 methylation in the regulation of active gene transcription and control of plant growth and development

  New Phytologist, 221:1101-1116, 2019. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.15418

• JIANG W., LI Z., YAO X., ZHENG B., SHEN W.H. and DONG A.

  jaw-1D: a gain-of-function mutation responsive to paramutation-like induction of epigenetic silencing

  Journal of Experimental Botany, 70(2):459-468, 2019. | DOI : 10.1093/jxb/ery365

• KANG H., MA J., WU D., SHEN W.H. and ZHU Y.

  Functional coordination of the chromatin-remodeling factor AtINO80 and the histone chaperones NRP1/2 in inflorescence meristem and root apical meristem

  Frontiers in Plant Science, 10:115, 2019. | DOI : 10.3389/fpls.2019.00115

• KANG H., ZHANG C., AN Z., SHEN W.H. and ZHU Y.

  AtINO80 and AtARP5 physically interact and play common as well as distinct roles in regulating plant growth and development

  New Phytologist, 223:336-353, 2019. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.15780

• LIU B., LIU Y., WANG B., LUO Q., SHI J., GAN J., SHEN W.H., YU Y. and DONG A.

  The transcription factor OsSUF4 interacts with SDG725 in promoting H3K36me3 establishment

  Nature Communications, 10:2999, 2019. | DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-10850-5

• LIU Y., LIU K., YIN L., YU Y., QI J., SHEN W.H., ZHU J., ZHANG Y. and DONG A.

  H4K4me2 functions as a repressive epigenetic mark in plants

  Epigenetics & Chromatin, 12:40, 2019. | DOI : 10.1186/s13072-019-0285-6

• HUANG Y., JIANG L., LIU B.Y., TAN C.F., CHEN D.H., SHEN W.H. and RUAN Y.

  Evolution and conservation of Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 core components and putative associated factors in the green lineage

  BMC Genomics, 20:533, 2019. | DOI : 10.1186/s12864-019-5905-9

• CHEN D.H., WANG Q., FENG J., RUAN Y. and SHEN W.H.

  Arabidopsis ZUOTIN RELATED FACTOR1 Proteins Are Required for Proper Embryonic and Post-Embryonic Root Development

  Frontiers in Plant Science, 10:1498, 2019. | DOI : doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01498

• PENG M., LI Z., ZHOU N., MA M., JIANG Y., DONG A., SHEN W.H. and LI L.

  Linking PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR to histone modification in plant shade avoidance

  Plant Physiology, 176:1341-1351, 2018. | DOI : 10.1104/pp.17.01189

• JIANG L., LI D., JIN L., RUAN Y., SHEN W.H. and LIU C.

  Histone lysine methyltransferases BnaSDG8.A and BnaSDG8.C are involved in the floral transition in Brassica napus

  Plant Journal, 95:672-685, 2018. | DOI : 10.1111/tpj.13978

• MA J., LIU Y., ZHOU W., ZHU Y., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  Histone chaperones play crucial roles in maintenance of stem cell niche during plant root development

  Plant Journal, 95:86-100, 2018. | DOI : 10.1111/tpj.13933

• PENG L., WANG L., ZHANG Y., DONG A., SHEN W.H. and HUANG Y.

  Structural analysis of the Arabidopsis AL2-PAL and PRC1 complex provides mechanistic insight about active-to-repressive chromatin state switch

  Journal of Molecular Biology, 430:4245-4259, 2018. | DOI : 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.08.021

• LI C., LIU Y., SHEN W.H., YU Y. and DONG A.

  Chromatin-remodeling factor OsINO80 is involved in regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis and is crucial for rice plant growth and development

  Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 60:144-159, 2018. | DOI : 10.1111/jipb.12603

• WANG Q. and SHEN W.H.

  Chromatin Modulation and Gene Regulation in Plants: Insight about PRC1 Function

  Biochemical Society Transactions, 46:957-966, 2018. | DOI : 10.1042/BST20170576

• ZHU Y., RONG L., LUO Q., WANG B., ZHOU N., YANG Y., ZHANG C., FENG H., ZHENG L., SHEN W.H., MA J. and DONG A.

  The Histone Chaperone NRP1 Interactsd with WEREWOLF to Activate GLABRA2 in Arabidopsis Root Hair Development

  Plant Cell, 29:260-276, 2017. | DOI : 10.1105/tpc.16.00719

• LIU K., YU Y., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  SET DOMAIN GROUP701 encodes a H3K4-methytransferase and regulates multiple key processes of rice plant development

  New Phytologist, 215:609-623, 2017. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.14596

• PINON V., YAO X., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  H3K4me3 is crucial for chromatin condensation and mitotic division during male gametogenesis

  Plant Physiology, 174:1205-1215, 2017. | DOI : 10.1104/pp.17.00306

• HUANG Y., CHEN D.H., LIU B.Y., SHEN W.H. and RUAN Y.

  Conservation and diversification of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) proteins in the green lineage

  Briefings in Functional Genomics, 16(2):106-119, 2017. | DOI : 10.1093/bfgp/elw007

• LIU B., WEI G., SHI J., JIN J., SHEN T., NI T., SHEN W.H., YU Y. and DONG A.

  SET DOMAIN GROUP 708, a histone H3 lysine 36-specific methyltransferase, controls flowering time in rice.

  New Phytologist, 210(2):577-588, 2016. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.13768

• CHEN D., MOLITOR A., XU L. and SHEN W.H.

  Arabidopsis PRC1 Core Component AtRING1 Regulates Stem Cell-determining Carpel Development mainly through Repression of Class-I KNOX Genes

  BMC Biology, 14:112, 2016. | DOI : 10.1186/s12915-016-0336-4

• WANG H., LIU C., CHENG J., LIU J., ZHANG L., HE C., SHEN W.H., JIN H., XU L. and ZHANG Y.

  Arabidopsis flower and embryo developmental genes are repressed in seedlings by different combinations of Polcomb Group proteins in association with distinct sets of cis-regulatory elements.

  PLoS Genetics, 12(1):e1005771, 2016. | DOI : 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005771

• FENG J., CHEN D., BERR A. and SHEN W.H.

  ZRF1 chromatin regulators have Polycomb-silencing and independent roles in plant development

  Plant Physiology, 172(3):1746-1759, 2016. | DOI : 10.1104/pp.16.00193

• ZHOU W., GAO J., MA J., CAO L., ZHANG C., ZHU Y., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  Distinct roles of the histone chaperones NAP1 and NRP and the chromatin-remodeling factor INO80 in somatic homologous recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Plant Journal, 88:397-410, 2016. | DOI : 10.1111/tpj.13256

• LIU B., BERR A., CHANG C., LIU C., SHEN W.H. and RUAN Y.

  Interplay of the histone methyltransferases SDG8 and SDG26 in the regulation of transcription and plant flowering and development

  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1859:581-590, 2016. | DOI : 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2016.02.003

• LI Z., LI B., LIU J., GUO Z., LIU Y., LI Y., SHEN W.H., HUANG Y., HUANG H., ZHANG Y. and DONG A.

  Transcription factors AS1 and AS2 interact with LHP1 to repress KNOX genes in Arabidopsis

  Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 58(12):959-970, 2016. | DOI : 10.1111/jipb.12485

• CHEN D., HUANG Y., RUAN Y. and SHEN W.H.

  The evolutionary landscape of PRC1 core components in green lineage

  Planta, 243(4):825-46, 2016. | DOI : 10.1007/s00425-015-2451-9

• HUANG Y., CHEN D., LIU C., SHEN W.H. and RUAN Y.

  Evolution and conservation of JmjC domain proteins in the green lineage

  Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 291:33-49, 2016. | DOI : 10.1007/s00438-015-1089-4

• BERR A., ZHANG X. and SHEN W.H.

  Réciprocité entre transcription active et méthylation des histones

  Biologie Aujourd’hui, 210(4):269-282, 2016. | DOI : 10.1051/jbio/2017004

• LEE J., YUN J.Y., ZHAO W., SHEN W.H. and AMASINO R.M.

  A methyltransferase required for proper timing of the vernalization response in Arabidopsis

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(7):2269-2274, 2015. | DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1423585112

• ZHOU W., ZHU Y., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  Histone H2A/H2B chaperones: from molecules to chromatin-based functions in plant growth and development.

  Plant Journal, 83:78-95, 2015. | DOI : 10.1111/tpj.12830

• BERR A., SHAFIQ S., PINON V., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  The trxG family histone-methyltransferase SET DOMAIN GROUP 26 promotes flowering via a distinctive genetic pathway.

  Plant Journal, 81:316-328, 2015. | DOI : 10.1111/tpj.12729

• ZHANG C., CAO L., RONG L., AN Z., ZHOU W., MA J., SHEN W.H., ZHU Y. and DONG A.

  The chromatin-remodeling factor AtINO80 plays crucial roles in genome stability maintenance and in plant development.

  Plant Journal, 82:655-668, 2015. | DOI : 10.1111/tpj.12840

• SHI J., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  Epigenetic regulation of rice flowering and reproduction

  Frontiers in Plant Science, 5(janv 28):803, 2015. | DOI : 10.3389/fpls.2014.00803

• ZHAO W., SHAFIQ S., BERR A. and SHEN W.H.

  Genome-wide gene expression profiling to investigate molecular phenotypes of Arabidopsis mutants deprived in distinct histone methyltransferases and demethylases

  Genomics Data, 4:143-145, 2015. | DOI : 10.1016/j.gdata.2015.04.006

• SHAFIQ S., BERR A. and SHEN W.H.

  Combinatorial functions of diverse histone methylations in Arabidopsis thaliana flowering time regulation

  New Phytologist, 201:312-322, 2014. | DOI : 10.1111/nph.12493

• MOLITOR A.M., BU Z., YU Y. and SHEN W.H.

  Arabidopsis AL PHD-PRC1 complexes promote seed germination through H3K4me3-to-H3K27me3 chromatin state switch in repression of seed developmental genes

  PLoS Genetics, 10(1):e1004091, 2014. | DOI : 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004091

• WENG M., YANG Y., FENG H., PAN Z., SHEN W.H., ZHU Y. and DONG A.

  Histone chaperone ASF1 is involved in gene transcription activation in response to heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana.

  Plant Cell and Environment, 37(9):2128-38, 2014. | DOI : 10.1111/pce.12299

• FENG J. and SHEN W.H.

  Dynamic regulation and function of histone monoubiquitination in plants.

  Frontiers in Plant Science, 5(83):doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.0083, 2014. | DOI : 10.3389/fpls.2014.00083

• MENARD R., VERDIER G., ORS M., ERHARDT M., BEISSON F. and SHEN W.H.

  Histone H2B monoubiquitination is involved in the regulation of cutin and wax composition in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Plant and Cell Physiology, 55(2):455-466, 2014. | DOI : 10.1093/pcp/pct182

• CHEN D., HUANG Y., LIU C., RUAN Y. and SHEN W.H.

  Functional conservation and divergence of J-domain-containing ZUO1/ZRF orthologs throughout evolution

  Planta, 239:1159-1173, 2014. | DOI : 10.1007/s00425-014-2058-6

• SUI P., SHI J., GAO X., SHEN W.H. and DONG A.

  H3K36 methylation is involved in promoting rice flowering

  Molecular Plant, 6(3):975-977, 2013. | DOI : 10.1093/mp/sss152

• MOES D., GATTI S., HOFFMANN C., DIETERLE M., MOREAU F., NEUMANN K., SCHUMACHER M., DIEDERICH M., GRILL E., SHEN W.H., STEINMETZ A. and THOMAS C.

  A LIM domain protein from Tobacco involved in Actin-Bundling and histone gene transcription

  Molecular Plant, 6(2):483-502, 2013. | DOI : 10.1093/mp/sss075

• MOLITOR A. and SHEN W.H.

  The Polycomb complex PRC1: composition and function in plants.

  Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 40(5):231-238, 2013. | DOI : 10.1016/j.jgg.2012.12.005

• YAO X., FENG H., YU Y., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  SDG2-mediated H3K4 methylation is required for proper Arabidopsis root growth and development.

  PLoS ONE, 8(2):e5637, 2013. | DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0056537

• GAO J., ZHU Y., ZHOU W., MOLINIER J., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  NAP1 Family Histone Chaperones Are Required for Somatic Homologous Recombination in Arabidopsis.

  Plant Cell, 24:1437-1447, 2012. | DOI : 10.1105/tpc.112.096792

• SUI P., JIN J., YE S., MU C., GAO J., FENG H., SHEN W.H., YU Y. and DONG A.

  H3K36 methylation is critical for brassinosteroid-regulated plant growth and development in rice.

  Plant Journal, 70:340-347, 2012. | DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04873.x

• LI Z., LI B., SHEN W.H., HUANG H. and DONG A.

  TCP transcription factors interact with AS2 in the repression of class-I KNOX genes in Arabidopsis thaliana.

  Plant Journal, 71:99-107, 2012. | DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.04973.x

• ZHU Y., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  Histone variants and chromatin assembly in plant abiotic stress responses.

  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1819:313-348, 2012. | DOI : 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.07.012

• BERR A., MENARD R., HEITZ T. and SHEN W.H.

  Chromatin modification and remodelling: a regulatory landscape for the control of Arabidopsis defence responses upon pathogen attack.

  Cellular Microbiology, 14(6):829-839, 2012. | DOI : 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2012.01785.x

• WIDIEZ T., EL-KAFAFI E.I., GIRIN T., BERR A., RUFFEL S., KROUK G., VAYSSIÈRES A., SHEN W.H., CORUZZI G., GOJON A. and LEPETIT M.

  High Nitrogen Insensitive 9 (HNI9)-mediated systemic repression of root NO3 uptake is assiociated with changes in histone methylation

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(32):13329-13334, 2011. | DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1017863108

• ZHU Y., WENG M., YANG Y., ZHANG C., LI Z., SHEN W.H. and DONG A.

  Arabidopsis homologues of the histone chaperone ASF1 are crucial for chromatin replication and cell proliferation in plant development

  Plant Journal, 66:443-455, 2011. | DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04504.x

• BERR A., SHAFIQ S. and SHEN W.H.

  Histone modifications in transcriptional activation during plant development

  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1809(10):567-576, 2011. | DOI : 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.07.001

• HUANG Y., LIU C., SHEN W.H. and RYUAN Y.

  Phylogenetic analysis and classification of the Brassica rapa SET-domain protein family

  BMC Plant Biology, 11-175, 2011. | DOI : 10.1186/1471-2229-11-175

• YAO X. and SHEN W.H.

  Crucial function of histone lysine methylation in plant reproduction

  Chinese Science Bulletin, 56:3493-3499, 2011. | DOI : 10.1007/s11434-011-4814-3

• BERR A., MCCALLUM E., MENARD R., MEYER D., FUCHS J., DONG A. and SHEN W.H.

  Arabidopsis SET DOMAIN GROUP2 is required for H3K4 trimethylation and is crucial for both sporophyte and gametophyte development.

  Plant Cell, 3232, 2010. | DOI : 10.1105/tpc.110.079962