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Divergent evolution of CHD3 proteins resulted in MOM1 refining epigenetic control in vascular plants.
PLoS genetics - 22 Aug 2008
Caikovski Marian, Yokthongwattana Chotika, Habu Yoshiki, Nishimura Taisuke, Mathieu Olivier, Paszkowski Jerzy
Abstract excerpt
Arabidopsis MOM1 is required for the heritable maintenance of transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). Unlike many other silencing factors, depletion of MOM1 evokes transcription at selected loci without major changes in DNA methylation or histone modification. These loci retain unusual, bivalent chromatin properties, intermediate to both euchromatin and heterochromatin. The structure of MOM1 previously suggested an...
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