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Depletion of MOM1 in non-dividing cells of Arabidopsis plants releases transcriptional gene silencing.
EMBO reports - 1 Oct 2002
Tariq Muhammad, Habu Yoshiki, Paszkowski Jerzy
Abstract excerpt
Mitotic and meiotic inheritance of epigenetic information is coupled to the reproduction of chromatin conformation and DNA methylation patterns. This implies that the S phase of the cell cycle provides a window of opportunity for changes in epigenetic determination. Recent studies, however, have suggested that chromatin structure is also rather dynamic in quiescent cells of multicellular eukaryotes and that...
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