Linker histone H1 proteins contain many variants in mammalian and can stabilize the condensed state of chromatin by binding to nucleosomes and promoting a more inaccessible structure of DNA. However, it is poorly understood how the binding of histone H1s to chromatin DNA is regulated. Screened as one of a collection of epithelial cells-enriched long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), here we found that small nucleolar RNA host gene 8 (SNHG8) is a chromatin-localized lncRNA and presents strong interaction and phase separation with histone H1 variants. Moreover, SNHG8 presents stronger ability to bind H1s than linker DNA, and outcompetes linker DNA for H1 binding. Consequently, loss of SNHG8 increases the amount of H1s that bind to chromatin, promotes chromatin condensation, and induces an epithelial differentiation-associated gene expression pattern. Collectively, our results propose that the highly abundant SNHG8 in epithelial cells keeps histone H1 variants out of nucleosome and its loss contributes to epithelial cell differentiation.
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