RNA-directed DNA methylation enforces boundaries between heterochromatin and euchromatin in the maize genome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 47, 2015, Pages 14728-14733

  Li, Qing ^a   Gent, Jonathan I ^b   Zynda, Greg ^c   Song, Jawon ^c   Makarevitch, Irina ^d   Hirsch, Cory D ^a   Hirsch, Candice N ^a   Dawe, R Kelly ^b   Madzima, Thelma F ^e,h   McGinnis, Karen M ^e   Lisch, Damon ^f   Schmitz, Robert J ^g   Vaughn, Matthew W ^c   Springer, Nathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of Georgia   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin boundary; DNA methylation; Maize; MCHH island; RdDM

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METHYLATION; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INDEL MUTATION; MAIZE; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION; TRANSPOSON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLAND; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INVERTED REPEAT; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; PLANT RNA; SPACER DNA;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; INDEL MUTATION; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84947967022     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514680112     Document Type: Article

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