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RNAi-independent de novo DNA methylation revealed in Arabidopsis mutants of chromatin remodeling gene DDM1.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jun 2012
Sasaki Taku, Kobayashi Akie, Saze Hidetoshi, Kakutani Tetsuji
Abstract excerpt
Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9me) and small RNAs are associated with constitutively silent chromatin in diverse eukaryotes including plants. In plants, silent transposons are also marked by cytosine methylation, especially at non-CpG sites. Transposon-specific non-CpG methylation in plants is controlled by small RNAs and H3K9me. Although it is often assumed that small RNA directs H3K9me, interaction...
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