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Small rna-directed epigenetic natural variation in arabidopsis thaliana

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作者Zhai, Jixian1,2,3; Liu, Jun4; Liu, Bin1,2,3; Li, Pingchuan1,2,3; Meyers, Blake C.5,6; Chen, Xuemei4; Cao, Xiaofeng1
刊名Plos genetics
出版日期2008-04-01
卷号4期号:4页码:11
ISSN号1553-7390
DOI10.1371/journal.pgen.1000056
通讯作者Zhai, jixian()
英文摘要Alterations. nevertheless, little is known about the role of epigenetics in evolution. this is due in part to scant data on epigenetic variation among natural populations. in plants, small interfering rna ( sirna) is involved in both the initiation and maintenance of gene silencing by directing dna methylation and/or histone methylation. here, we report that, in the model plant arabidopsis thaliana, a cluster of similar to 24 nt sirnas found at high levels in the ecotype landsberg erecta ( ler) could direct dna methylation and heterochromatinization at a hat element adjacent to the promoter of flowering locus c ( flc), a major repressor of flowering, whereas the same hat element in ecotype columbia ( col) with almost identical dna sequence, generates a set of low abundance sirnas that do not direct these activities. we have called this hat element mpf for (m) under bar ethylated region near (p) under bar romoter of (f) under bar lc, although de novo methylation triggered by an inverted repeat transgene at this region in col does not alter its flc expression. dna methylation of the ler allele mpf is dependent on genes in known silencing pathways, and such methylation is transmissible to col by genetic crosses, although with varying degrees of penetrance. a genome-wide comparison of ler and col small rnas identified at least 68 loci matched by a significant level of,24 nt sirnas present specifically in ler but not col, where nearly half of the loci are related to repeat or te sequences. methylation analysis revealed that 88% of the examined loci ( 37 out of 42) were specifically methylated in ler but not col, suggesting that small rna can direct epigenetic differences between two closely related arabidopsis ecotypes.
WOS关键词FLOWERING-LOCUS-C ; DNA METHYLATION ; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS ; METHYLTRANSFERASE ; EVOLUTION ; PATHWAYS ; GENOME ; PLANTS ; TIME ; DRM
WOS研究方向Genetics & Heredity
WOS类目Genetics & Heredity
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000255407400005
出版者PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
URI标识http://www.irgrid.ac.cn/handle/1471x/2390418
专题中国科学院大学
通讯作者Zhai, Jixian
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Genet & Dev Biol, State Key Lab Plant Genom, Beijing, Peoples R China
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Genet & Dev Biol, Natl Ctr Plant Gene Res, Beijing, Peoples R China
3.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
4.Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Bot & Plant Sci, Inst Integrat Genom Res, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
5.Univ Delaware, Delaware Biotechnol Inst, Newark, DE USA
6.Univ Delaware, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Newark, DE 19717 USA
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Zhai, Jixian,Liu, Jun,Liu, Bin,et al. Small rna-directed epigenetic natural variation in arabidopsis thaliana[J]. Plos genetics,2008,4(4):11.
APA Zhai, Jixian.,Liu, Jun.,Liu, Bin.,Li, Pingchuan.,Meyers, Blake C..,...&Cao, Xiaofeng.(2008).Small rna-directed epigenetic natural variation in arabidopsis thaliana.Plos genetics,4(4),11.
MLA Zhai, Jixian,et al."Small rna-directed epigenetic natural variation in arabidopsis thaliana".Plos genetics 4.4(2008):11.

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