“…The enrichment for Trl and z motifs in differentially open promoters in old ISCs based on our ATAC-seq analysis, as well as an upregulation of classic Pc targets (Abd-B and Ubx) in our bulk RNA-seq data (Supplementary File 2), strongly suggested an involvement of PcG proteins in the age-related loss of lineage fidelity. Both Trl and z are DNA binding proteins that can bind PREs and have been implicated in cooperating with PcG complexes to regulate gene repression (Erokhin, Georgiev, & Chetverina, 2018;Mulholland, King, & Kingston, 2003). Since PRC2 is responsible for depositing methyl groups onto H3K27 (Laugesen ISC nuclei exhibited a lower intensity of H3K27me2 than EEs in young animals ( Figure 4A), however, ISCs in old midguts exhibited a significant increase in H3K27me2 intensity, approaching EE levels ( Figure 4A).…”