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 …

Comprehensive catalog of currently documented histone modifications

Y Zhao, BA Garcia - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Modern techniques in molecular biology, genomics, and mass spectrometry–based
proteomics have identified a large number of novel histone posttranslational modifications …

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 …

Optical control of mammalian endogenous transcription and epigenetic states

S Konermann, MD Brigham, AE Trevino, PD Hsu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The dynamic nature of gene expression enables cellular programming, homeostasis and
environmental adaptation in living systems. Dissection of causal gene functions in cellular …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Dual binding of chromomethylase domains to H3K9me2-containing nucleosomes directs DNA methylation in plants

J Du, X Zhong, YV Bernatavichute, H Stroud, S Feng… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
DNA methylation and histone modification exert epigenetic control over gene expression.
CHG methylation by CHROMOMETHYLASE3 (CMT3) depends on histone H3K9 …

Integrative epigenomic mapping defines four main chromatin states in Arabidopsis

F Roudier, I Ahmed, C Bérard, A Sarazin… - The EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
Post‐translational modification of histones and DNA methylation are important components
of chromatin‐level control of genome activity in eukaryotes. However, principles governing …

Histone methylation in higher plants

C Liu, F Lu, X Cui, X Cao - Annual review of plant biology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Histone methylation plays a fundamental role in regulating diverse developmental
processes and is also involved in silencing repetitive sequences in order to maintain …

The SET-domain protein superfamily: protein lysine methyltransferases

SC Dillon, X Zhang, RC Trievel, X Cheng - Genome biology, 2005 - Springer
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A stem cell–like chromatin pattern may predispose tumor suppressor genes to DNA hypermethylation and heritable silencing

JE Ohm, KM McGarvey, X Yu, L Cheng, KE Schuebel… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
Adult cancers may derive from stem or early progenitor cells,. Epigenetic modulation of gene
expression is essential for normal function of these early cells but is highly abnormal in …