The maize methylome influences mRNA splice sites and reveals widespread paramutation-like switches guided by small RNA

Genome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1651-1662

  Regulski, Michael ^a   Lu, Zhenyuan ^a   Kendall, Jude ^a   Donoghue, Mark T A ^a   Reinders, Jon ^b   Llaca, Victor ^b   Deschamps, Stephane ^b   Smith, Andrew ^c   Levy, Dan ^a   McCombie, W Richard ^a   Tingey, Scott ^b   Rafalski, Antoni ^b   Hicks, James ^a   Ware, Doreen ^a,d   Martienssen, Robert A ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; CYTOSINE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MUTAGENIC AGENT; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE; INTRON; INVERTED REPEAT; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT INBRED STRAIN; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SPLICING; TRANSPOSON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84884695071     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.153510.112     Document Type: Article

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