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ZmMBD101 is a DNA-binding protein that maintains Mutator elements chromatin in a repressive state in maize.
Plant, cell & environment - 1 Jan 2016
Questa Julia I, Rius Sebastián P, Casadevall Romina, Casati Paula
Abstract excerpt
In maize (Zea mays), as well as in other crops, transposable elements (TEs) constitute a great proportion of the genome. Chromatin modifications play a vital role in establishing transposon silencing and perpetuating the acquired repressive state. Nucleosomes associated with TEs are enriched for dimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 9 and 27 (H3K9me2 and H3K27me2, respectively), signals of repressive chromatin....
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