Regulation and function of DNA methylation in plants and animals

XJ He, T Chen, JK Zhu - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark involved in diverse biological processes.
In plants, DNA methylation can be established through the RNA-directed DNA methylation …

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

JA Law, SE Jacobsen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

Gardening the genome: DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

SWL Chan, IR Henderson, SE Jacobsen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
DNA methylation has two essential roles in plants and animals—defending the genome
against transposons and regulating gene expression. Recent experiments in Arabidopsis …

Gene silencing and DNA methylation processes

J Paszkowski, SA Whitham - Current opinion in plant biology, 2001 - Elsevier
Epigenetic gene silencing results from the inhibition of transcription or from
posttranscriptional RNA degradation. DNA methylation is one of the most central and …

Dynamics and function of DNA methylation in plants

H Zhang, Z Lang, JK Zhu - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic modification that is important for gene regulation
and genome stability. Aberrant patterns of DNA methylation can lead to plant developmental …

DNA methylation in plants: relationship to small RNAs and histone modifications, and functions in transposon inactivation

H Saze, K Tsugane, T Kanno… - Plant and Cell …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is a type of epigenetic marking that strongly influences chromatin structure
and gene expression in plants and mammals. Over the past decade, DNA methylation has …

Active DNA demethylation and DNA repair

C Niehrs - Differentiation, 2009 - Elsevier
DNA methylation on cytosine is an epigenetic modification and is essential for gene
regulation and genome stability in vertebrates. Traditionally DNA methylation was …

DNA methylation dynamics in plants and mammals: overview of regulation and dysregulation

AR Elhamamsy - Cell biochemistry and function, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation is a major epigenetic marking mechanism regulating various biological
functions in mammals and plant. The crucial role of DNA methylation has been observed in …

The mechanism and function of active DNA demethylation in plants

R Liu, Z Lang - Journal of integrative plant biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation is a conserved and important epigenetic mark in both mammals and
plants. DNA methylation can be dynamically established, maintained, and removed through …

Dynamic DNA methylation in plant growth and development

A Bartels, Q Han, P Nair, L Stacey, H Gaynier… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification required for transposable element (TE)
silencing, genome stability, and genomic imprinting. Although DNA methylation has been …