Strong epigenetic similarity between maize centromeric and pericentromeric regions at the level of small RNAs, DNA methylation and H3 chromatin modifications

Epigenetic Centromere Propagation and the Nature of CENP-A Nucleosomes

(2011) Ben E. Black et al.   CELL

Cell cycle regulated transcription of heterochromatin in mammals vs. fission yeast: Functional conservation or coincidence?

(2011) Junjie Lu et al.   CELL CYCLE

Genome Size and Transposable Element Content as Determined by High-Throughput Sequencing in Maize and Zea luxurians

(2011) Maud I. Tenaillon et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Distinct DNA methylation patterns associated with active and inactive centromeres of the maize B chromosome

(2011) D.-H. Koo et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Heterochromatin Is Required for Normal Distribution of Neurospora crassa CenH3

(2011) K. M. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Mitotic centromeric targeting of HP1 and its binding to Sgo1 are dispensable for sister-chromatid cohesion in human cells

(2011) Jungseog Kang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Production of Viable Gametes without Meiosis in Maize Deficient for an ARGONAUTE Protein

(2011) Manjit Singh et al.   PLANT CELL

BS Seeker: precise mapping for bisulfite sequencing

(2010) Pao-Yang Chen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Epigenetic engineering shows H3K4me2 is required for HJURP targeting and CENP-A assembly on a synthetic human kinetochore

(2010) Jan H Bergmann et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

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

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

Genome-wide mapping of cytosine methylation revealed dynamic DNA methylation patterns associated with genes and centromeres in rice

(2010) Huihuang Yan et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A super-resolution map of the vertebrate kinetochore

(2010) S. A. Ribeiro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

(2010) S. Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Eukaryotic DNA Methylation

(2010) A. Zemach et al.   SCIENCE

A paucity of heterochromatin at functional human neocentromeres

(2010) Alicia Alonso et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

Widespread Gene Conversion in Centromere Cores

(2010) Jinghua Shi et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

DNA Binding of Centromere Protein C (CENPC) Is Stabilized by Single-Stranded RNA

(2010) Yaqing Du et al.   PLoS Genetics

Cohesin: Its Roles and Mechanisms

(2009) Kim Nasmyth et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

RNA-mediated chromatin-based silencing in plants

(2009) Marjori Matzke et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

A Caenorhabditis elegans RNA-Directed RNA Polymerase in Sperm Development and Endogenous RNA Interference

(2009) Jonathan I. Gent et al.   GENETICS

Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences

(2009) Ryan Lister et al.   NATURE

Genome-Wide and Organ-Specific Landscapes of Epigenetic Modifications and Their Relationships to mRNA and Small RNA Transcriptomes in Maize

(2009) X. Wang et al.   PLANT CELL

Super-stretched pachytene chromosomes for fluorescencein situhybridization mapping and immunodetection of DNA methylation

(2009) Dal-Hoe Koo et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) Proteins Do Not Drive Pericentromeric Cohesin Enrichment in Human Cells

(2009) Ángel Serrano et al.   PLoS One

Phosphorylation of H2A by Bub1 Prevents Chromosomal Instability Through Localizing Shugoshin

(2009) S. A. Kawashima et al.   SCIENCE

Synthetic Heterochromatin Bypasses RNAi and Centromeric Repeats to Establish Functional Centromeres

(2009) A. Kagansky et al.   SCIENCE

A First-Generation Haplotype Map of Maize

(2009) M. A. Gore et al.   SCIENCE

The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

(2009) P. S. Schnable et al.   SCIENCE

Loss of RNA–Dependent RNA Polymerase 2 (RDR2) Function Causes Widespread and Unexpected Changes in the Expression of Transposons, Genes, and 24-nt Small RNAs

(2009) Yi Jia et al.   PLoS Genetics

Mu Transposon Insertion Sites and Meiotic Recombination Events Co-Localize with Epigenetic Marks for Open Chromatin across the Maize Genome

(2009) Sanzhen Liu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Maize Centromere Structure and Evolution: Sequence Analysis of Centromeres 2 and 5 Reveals Dynamic Loci Shaped Primarily by Retrotransposons

(2009) Thomas K. Wolfgruber et al.   PLoS Genetics

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

(2009) Ben Langmead et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Histone modifications associated with both A and B chromosomes of maize

(2008) Weiwei Jin et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Polycomb Silencing of KNOX Genes Confines Shoot Stem Cell Niches in Arabidopsis

(2008) Lin Xu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cell cycle control of centromeric repeat transcription and heterochromatin assembly

(2008) Ee Sin Chen et al.   NATURE

Epigenetic Modification of Centromeric Chromatin: Hypomethylation of DNA Sequences in the CENH3-Associated Chromatin in Arabidopsis thaliana and Maize

(2008) W. Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL

Distinct size distribution of endogenous siRNAs in maize: Evidence from deep sequencing in the mop1-1 mutant

(2008) K. Nobuta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heterochromatin and RNAi Are Required to Establish CENP-A Chromatin at Centromeres

(2008) H. D. Folco et al.   SCIENCE

Intergenic Locations of Rice Centromeric Chromatin

(2008) Huihuang Yan et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY