De novo DNA methylation and the maintenance of DNA methylation in asymmetrical
sequence contexts is catalyzed by homologous proteins in plants (DRM2) and animals …

Differential cytosine methylation of genes and transposons is important for maintaining
integrity of plant genomes. In Arabidopsis, transposons are heavily methylated at both CG …

Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

Plants make use of distinct types of DNA methylation characterized by their DNA
methyltransferases and modes of regulation. One type, RNA-directed DNA methylation …

Cytosine DNA methylation in vertebrates is widespread, but methylation in plants is found
almost exclusively at transposable elements and repetitive DNA [1]. Within regions of …

Abstract RNA Directed DNA Methylation (RdDM) is a pathway that mediates de novo DNA
methylation, an evolutionary conserved chemical modification of cytosine bases, which …

Background It is challenging to determine the effect of DNA methylation on the epigenetic
landscape and the function in higher organisms due to the lack of DNA methylation-free …

DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark affecting genes and transposons. Screening for
mutants that fail to establish DNA methylation yielded two we termed “involved in de …

In plants, cytosine methylation, an epigenetic mark critical for transposon silencing, is
maintained over generations by key enzymes that directly methylate DNA and is facilitated …

DNA methylation is an evolutionarily conserved epigenetic modification that is critical for
gene silencing and the maintenance of genome integrity. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the de …