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siRNA-mediated chromatin maintenance and its function in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Aug 2011
Kanno Tatsuo, Habu Yoshiki
Abstract excerpt
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are widespread in various eukaryotes and are involved in maintenance of chromatin modifications, especially those for inert states represented by covalent modifications of cytosine and/or histones. In contrast to mammalian genomes, in which cytosine methylation is restricted mostly to CG dinucleotide sequences, inert chromatin in plants carries cytosine methylation in all sequence...
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