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, also known as 5-methylcytosine, is an epigenetic modification that has
crucial functions in plant growth, development and adaptation. The cellular DNA methylation …

In plants, DNA methylation occurs in distinct sequence contexts, including CG, CHG, and
CHH. Thus, plants have developed a surprisingly diverse set of DNA methylation readers to …

DNA methylation is essential for gene regulation, transposon silencing and imprinting.
Although the generation of specific DNA methylation patterns is critical for these processes …

DNA methylation shapes the epigenetic landscape of the genome, plays critical roles in
regulating gene expression, and ensures transposon silencing. As is evidenced by the …

DNA methylation mediates silencing of transposable elements and genes in part via
recruitment of the Arabidopsis MBD5/6 complex, which contains the methyl-CpG binding …

Although the mechanism of DNA methylation‐mediated gene silencing is extensively
studied, relatively little is known about how promoter methylated genes are protected from …

DNA methylation in the non-CG context is widespread in the plant kingdom and abundant in
mammalian tissues such as the brain and pluripotent cells. Non-CG methylation in …

Epigenetics is a discipline that studies potentially reversible heritable changes in gene
expression with no structural modifications in the DNA sequence. The epigenetic machinery …

Abstract 13 MBD-containing genes (AtMBD1-13) have been identified in Arabidopsis
thaliana so far, however, their DNA binding ability is still controversial. Here, we …