Histone methylation plays a fundamental role in regulating diverse developmental
processes and is also involved in silencing repetitive sequences in order to maintain …

Living organisms have the clearly defined strategies of stress response. These strategies
are predefined by a genetic make-up of the organism and depend on a complex regulatory …

Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …

Programmed constitutive heterochromatin silencing is essential for eukaryotic genome
regulation, yet the initial step of this process is ambiguous. A large proportion of R-loops …

Mobile transposable elements (TEs) not only participate in genome evolution but also
threaten genome integrity. In healthy cells, TEs that encode all of the components that are …

DNA methylation is associated with transcriptional repression of eukaryotic genes and
transposons, but the downstream mechanism of gene silencing is largely unknown. Here …

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 …

Cytosine bases of the nuclear genome in higher plants are often extensively methylated.
Cytosine methylation has been implicated in the silencing of both transposable elements …

Imprinted genes are expressed predominantly from either their paternal or their maternal
allele. To date, all imprinted genes identified in plants are expressed in the endosperm. In …

In eukaryotic genomes, gene expression and DNA recombination are affected by structural
chromatin traits. Chromatin structure is shaped by the activity of enzymes that either …