An atypical component of RNA-directed DNA methylation machinery has both DNA methylation-dependent and -independent roles in locus-specific transcriptional gene silencing

Regulation and function of DNA methylation in plants and animals

(2011) Xin-Jian He et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Identification of genes required for de novo DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

(2011) Maxim V.C. Greenberg et al.   Epigenetics

Genetic Evidence That DNA Methyltransferase DRM2 Has a Direct Catalytic Role in RNA-Directed DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) U. Naumann et al.   GENETICS

An siRNA pathway prevents transgenerational retrotransposition in plants subjected to stress

(2011) Hidetaka Ito et al.   NATURE

SHH1, a Homeodomain Protein Required for DNA Methylation, As Well As RDR2, RDM4, and Chromatin Remodeling Factors, Associate with RNA Polymerase IV

(2011) Julie A. Law et al.   PLoS Genetics

Expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the CMM2 region of theArabidopsis thalianaMorpheus' molecule 1 protein

(2010) Tom J. Petty et al.   Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

A Protein Complex Required for Polymerase V Transcripts and RNA- Directed DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis

(2010) Julie A. Law et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An RNA polymerase II- and AGO4-associated protein acts in RNA-directed DNA methylation

(2010) Zhihuan Gao et al.   NATURE

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

(2010) Julie A. Law et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

MORPHEUS' MOLECULE1 Is Required to Prevent Aberrant RNA Transcriptional Read-Through in Arabidopsis

(2010) Y. Zhou et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The De Novo Cytosine Methyltransferase DRM2 Requires Intact UBA Domains and a Catalytically Mutated Paralog DRM3 during RNA–Directed DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) Ian R. Henderson et al.   PLoS Genetics

An Effector of RNA-Directed DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis Is an ARGONAUTE 4- and RNA-Binding Protein

(2009) Xin-Jian He et al.   CELL

Transduction of RNA-directed DNA methylation signals to repressive histone marks in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Hisataka Numa et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

MOM1 and Pol-IV/V interactions regulate the intensity and specificity of transcriptional gene silencing

(2009) Chotika Yokthongwattana et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

RNA-directed DNA methylation and plant development require an IWR1-type transcription factor

(2009) Tatsuo Kanno et al.   EMBO REPORTS

RNA-directed DNA methylation requires an AGO4-interacting member of the SPT5 elongation factor family

(2009) Natacha Bies-Etheve et al.   EMBO REPORTS

A conserved transcriptional regulator is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation and plant development

(2009) X.-J. He et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

NRPD4, a protein related to the RPB4 subunit of RNA polymerase II, is a component of RNA polymerases IV and V and is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation

(2009) X.-J. He et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Intergenic transcription by RNA Polymerase II coordinates Pol IV and Pol V in siRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis

(2009) B. Zheng et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Uniparental expression of PolIV-dependent siRNAs in developing endosperm of Arabidopsis

(2009) Rebecca A. Mosher et al.   NATURE

Small RNAs in transcriptional gene silencing and genome defence

(2009) Danesh Moazed   NATURE

ATXR5 and ATXR6 are H3K27 monomethyltransferases required for chromatin structure and gene silencing

(2009) Yannick Jacob et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Extensive Demethylation of Repetitive Elements During Seed Development Underlies Gene Imprinting

(2009) M. Gehring et al.   SCIENCE

Genome-Wide Demethylation of Arabidopsis Endosperm

(2009) T.-F. Hsieh et al.   SCIENCE

Noncoding Transcription by RNA Polymerase Pol IVb/Pol V Mediates Transcriptional Silencing of Overlapping and Adjacent Genes

(2008) Andrzej T. Wierzbicki et al.   CELL

Chp1-Tas3 Interaction Is Required To Recruit RITS to Fission Yeast Centromeres and for Maintenance of Centromeric Heterochromatin

(2008) J. L. DeBeauchamp et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

A structural-maintenance-of-chromosomes hinge domain–containing protein is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation

(2008) Tatsuo Kanno et al.   NATURE GENETICS

PolIVb influences RNA-directed DNA methylation independently of its role in siRNA biogenesis

(2008) R. A. Mosher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Divergent Evolution of CHD3 Proteins Resulted in MOM1 Refining Epigenetic Control in Vascular Plants

(2008) Marian Čaikovski et al.   PLoS Genetics