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Mutation of Arabidopsis SMC4 identifies condensin as a corepressor of pericentromeric transposons and conditionally expressed genes.
Genes & development - 1 Aug 2017
Wang Jing, Blevins Todd, Podicheti Ram, Haag Jeremy R, Tan Ek Han, Wang Feng, Pikaard Craig S
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In eukaryotes, transcriptionally inactive loci are enriched within highly condensed heterochromatin. In plants, as in mammals, the DNA of heterochromatin is densely methylated and wrapped by histones displaying a characteristic subset of post-translational modifications. Growing evidence indicates that these chromatin modifications are not sufficient for silencing. Instead, they are prerequisites for further...
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