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DNA methylation maintenance consolidates RNA-directed DNA methylation and transcriptional gene silencing over generations in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Oct 2014
Kuhlmann Markus, Finke Andreas, Mascher Martin, Mette Michael F
Abstract excerpt
In plants, 24 nucleotide short interfering RNAs serve as a signal to direct cytosine methylation at homologous DNA regions in the nucleus. If the targeted DNA has promoter function, this RNA-directed DNA methylation may result in transcriptional gene silencing. In a genetic screen for factors involved in RNA-directed transcriptional silencing of a ProNOS-NPTII reporter transgene in Arabidopsis thaliana, we...
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