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Site-specific methylation in gene coding region underlies transcriptional silencing of the Phytochrome A epiallele in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant molecular biology - 1 May 2012
Rangani Gulab, Khodakovskaya Mariya, Alimohammadi Mohammad, Hoecker Ute, Srivastava Vibha
Abstract excerpt
DNA methylation in cytosine residues plays an important role in regulating gene expression. Densely methylated transgenes are often silenced. In contrast, several eukaryotic genomes express moderately methylated genes. These methylations are found in the CG context within the coding region (gene body). The role of gene body methylation in gene expression, however, is not clear. The Arabidopsis Phytochrome A...
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