Background Cytosine methylation is crucial for gene regulation and silencing of
transposable elements in mammals and plants. While this epigenetic mark is extensively …

Cytosine methylation is important for transposon silencing and epigenetic regulation of
endogenous genes, although the extent to which this DNA modification functions to regulate …

Cytosine methylation, a common form of DNA modification that antagonizes transcription, is
found at transposons and repeats in vertebrates, plants and fungi. Here we have mapped …

Cytosine methylation silences transposable elements in plants, vertebrates, and fungi but
also regulates gene expression. Plant methylation is catalyzed by three families of enzymes …

Background Unlike animals, plants can pause their life cycle as dormant seeds. In both
plants and animals, DNA methylation is involved in the regulation of gene expression and …

Little is known about patterns of genic DNA methylation across the plant kingdom or about
the evolutionary processes that shape them. To characterize gene-body methylation (gbM) …

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification required for transposable element (TE)
silencing, genome stability, and genomic imprinting. Although DNA methylation has been …

Background DNA methylation occurs at preferred sites in eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis, DNA
cytosine methylation is maintained by three subfamilies of methyltransferases with distinct …

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 …

The CMT2 and RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathways have been proposed to
separately maintain CHH methylation in specific regions of the Arabidopsis thaliana …