DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance in plants and filamentous fungi

Martienssen, R. A., Colot, V. (August 2001) DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance in plants and filamentous fungi. Science, 293 (5532). pp. 1070-1074. ISSN 0036-8075

Abstract

Plants and filamentous fungi share with mammals enzymes responsible for DNA methylation. in these organisms, DNA methylation is associated with gene silencing and transposon control. However, plants and fungi differ from mammals in the genomic distribution, sequence specificity, and heritability of methylation. We consider the rote that transposons play in establishing methylation patterns and the epigenetic consequences of their perturbation.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: de-novo methylation cytosine methylation arabidopsis-thaliana neurospora-crassa rna interference methyltransferase homolog seed development endogenous gene maize genome c-elegans
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA methylation
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > epigenetics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > epigenetics
organism description > plant
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Communities: CSHL labs > Martienssen lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: August 2001
Date Deposited: 12 Dec 2013 20:04
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2013 20:06
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/28994

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