RNA-directed DNA methylation: the evolution of a complex epigenetic pathway in flowering plants

MA Matzke, T Kanno, AJM Matzke - Annual review of plant …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is an epigenetic process in plants that involves both
short and long noncoding RNAs. The generation of these RNAs and the induction of RdDM …

RNA-directed DNA methylation: an epigenetic pathway of increasing complexity

MA Matzke, RA Mosher - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is the major small RNA-mediated epigenetic
pathway in plants. RdDM requires a specialized transcriptional machinery that comprises …

A protein complex required for polymerase V transcripts and RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

JA Law, I Ausin, LM Johnson, AA Vashisht, JK Zhu… - Current Biology, 2010 - cell.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification associated with gene silencing. In
Arabidopsis, DNA methylation is established by DOMAINS REARRANGED …

RNA-directed DNA methylation

RM Erdmann, CL Picard - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is a biological process in which non-coding RNA
molecules direct the addition of DNA methylation to specific DNA sequences. The RdDM …

The RNAs of RNA-directed DNA methylation

JM Wendte, CS Pikaard - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2017 - Elsevier
RNA-directed chromatin modification that includes cytosine methylation silences
transposable elements in both plants and mammals, contributing to genome defense and …

RNA‐directed DNA methylation and plant development require an IWR1‐type transcription factor

T Kanno, E Bucher, L Daxinger, B Huettel, DP Kreil… - EMBO …, 2010 - embopress.org
RNA‐directed DNA methylation (RdDM) in plants requires two RNA polymerase (Pol) II‐
related RNA polymerases, namely Pol IV and Pol V. A genetic screen designed to reveal …

Co-targeting RNA polymerases IV and V promotes efficient de novo DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

J Gallego-Bartolomé, W Liu, PH Kuo, S Feng… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway in plants controls gene expression via
cytosine DNA methylation. The ability to manipulate RdDM would shed light on the …

Targets of RNA-directed DNA methylation

M Matzke, T Kanno, B Huettel, L Daxinger… - Current opinion in plant …, 2007 - Elsevier
RNA-directed DNA methylation contributes substantially to epigenetic regulation of the plant
genome. Methylation is guided to homologous DNA target sequences by 24nt …

A conserved transcriptional regulator is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation and plant development

XJ He, YF Hsu, S Zhu, HL Liu, O Pontes… - Genes & …, 2009 - genesdev.cshlp.org
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is a conserved mechanism for epigenetic silencing
of transposons and other repetitive elements. We report that the rdm4 (RNA-directed DNA …

RNA‐directed DNA methylation requires stepwise binding of silencing factors to long non‐coding RNA

G Böhmdorfer, MJ Rowley, J Kuciński, Y Zhu… - The Plant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ribonucleic acid‐mediated transcriptional gene silencing (known as RNA‐directed DNA
methylation, or Rd DM, in A rabidopsis thaliana) is important for influencing gene expression …