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A concerted DNA methylation/histone methylation switch regulates rRNA gene dosage control and nucleolar dominance

scientific article published in February 2004

A transcription fork model for Pol IV and Pol V-dependent RNA-directed DNA methylation.

scientific article published in January 2012

A two-step process for epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

An ARGONAUTE4-containing nuclear processing center colocalized with Cajal bodies in Arabidopsis thaliana.

scientific article published in July 2006

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

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An SNF2 protein associated with nuclear RNA silencing and the spread of a silencing signal between cells in Arabidopsis

scientific article published in 2007

An atypical epigenetic mechanism affects uniparental expression of Pol IV-dependent siRNAs

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An effector of RNA-directed DNA methylation in arabidopsis is an ARGONAUTE 4- and RNA-binding protein.

scientific article published on May 2009

Analysis of histone acetyltransferase and histone deacetylase families of Arabidopsis thaliana suggests functional diversification of chromatin modification among multicellular eukaryotes.

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Arabidopsis Histone Lysine Methyltransferases

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Arabidopsis histone deacetylase HDA6 is required for maintenance of transcriptional gene silencing and determines nuclear organization of rDNA repeats

scientific article published on 22 March 2004

Cell biology of the Arabidopsis nuclear siRNA pathway for RNA-directed chromatin modification

scientific article published on January 2006

Chromosomal locus rearrangements are a rapid response to formation of the allotetraploid Arabidopsis suecica genome

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Chromosome Topology—Organizing Genes by Loops and Bounds

scientific article published on August 1, 1998

Chromosome and DNA methylation dynamics during meiosis in the autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

Cytokinin induction of RNA polymerase I transcription in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Detecting differential expression of parental or progenitor alleles in genetic hybrids and allopolyploids

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Developing a new interdisciplinary lab course for undergraduate and graduate students: Plant cells and proteins

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Epigenetic regulation in plants.

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Epigenetic silencing of RNA polymerase I transcription

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Epigenetic silencing of RNA polymerase I transcription: a role for DNA methylation and histone modification in nucleolar dominance

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Erasure of histone acetylation by Arabidopsis HDA6 mediates large-scale gene silencing in nucleolar dominance

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Evidence for nucleolus organizer regions as the units of regulation in nucleolar dominance in Arabidopsis thaliana interecotype hybrids

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Evolutionary history of plant multisubunit RNA polymerases IV and V: subunit origins via genome-wide and segmental gene duplications, retrotransposition, and lineage-specific subfunctionalization.

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Extensive purification of a putative RNA polymerase I holoenzyme from plants that accurately initiates rRNA gene transcription in vitro

scientific article published on October 1997

Extra views on RNA-dependent DNA methylation and MBD6-dependent heterochromatin formation in nucleolar dominance

scientific article published on March 2, 2010

Functional analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana rRNA gene and spacer promoters in vivo and by transient expression

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Functional consequences of subunit diversity in RNA polymerases II and V

scientific article published in March 2012

Functional diversification of maize RNA polymerase IV and V subtypes via alternative catalytic subunits

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Gateway-compatible vectors for plant functional genomics and proteomics

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Gene dosage and stochastic effects determine the severity and direction of uniparental ribosomal RNA gene silencing (nucleolar dominance) in Arabidopsis allopolyploids

scientific article published on December 1998

Genomic change and gene silencing in polyploids

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Heat Shock Proteins in Tobacco Cell Suspension during Growth Cycle

scientific article published in July 1984

Heterochromatic siRNAs and DDM1 independently silence aberrant 5S rDNA transcripts in Arabidopsis

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Heterochromatin: condense or excise

scientific article published in January 2007

Histone methyltransferases regulating rRNA gene dose and dosage control in Arabidopsis.

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Hybrid incompatibility caused by an epiallele

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In vitro specificities of Arabidopsis co-activator histone acetyltransferases: implications for histone hyperacetylation in gene activation

scientific article published on 18 September 2007

In vitro transcription activities of Pol IV, Pol V, and RDR2 reveal coupling of Pol IV and RDR2 for dsRNA synthesis in plant RNA silencing

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Intersection of small RNA pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana sub-nuclear domains

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Isolation and sequence analysis of cDNAs for the major potato tuber protein, patatin

scientific article published on November 1984

Locus-specific ribosomal RNA gene silencing in nucleolar dominance

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Maintenance of Normal or Supranormal Protein Accumulation in Developing Ovules of Glycine max L. Merr. during PEG-Induced Water Stress

scientific article published in May 1984

Mechanisms of HDA6-mediated rRNA gene silencing: suppression of intergenic Pol II transcription and differential effects on maintenance versus siRNA-directed cytosine methylation

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Metal A and metal B sites of nuclear RNA polymerases Pol IV and Pol V are required for siRNA-dependent DNA methylation and gene silencing

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Methylating the DNA of the Most Repressed: Special Access Required

scientific article published on March 28, 2013

Molecular characterization of the patatin multigene family of potato

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Molecular mechanisms governing species-specific transcription of ribosomal RNA

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Multimegabase silencing in nucleolar dominance involves siRNA-directed DNA methylation and specific methylcytosine-binding proteins

scientific article published on December 2008

Multisubunit RNA polymerases IV and V: purveyors of non-coding RNA for plant gene silencing

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Mutation of Arabidopsis SMC4 identifies condensin as a corepressor of pericentromeric transposons and conditionally expressed genes

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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

scientific article published on February 2009

Natural variation in nucleolar dominance reveals the relationship between nucleolus organizer chromatin topology and rRNA gene transcription in Arabidopsis

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Noncoding transcription by RNA polymerase Pol IVb/Pol V mediates transcriptional silencing of overlapping and adjacent genes

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Nuclear biology: what's been most surprising?

scientific article published on March 2013

Nucleolar dominance and ribosomal RNA gene silencing

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Nucleolar dominance and silencing of transcription

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Nucleolar dominance: uniparental gene silencing on a multi-megabase scale in genetic hybrids

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Nucleolin is required for DNA methylation state and the expression of rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Nucleosome binding by the polymerase I transactivator upstream binding factor displaces linker histone H1.

scientific article published on October 1997

Oddpols united: new insights into transcription by RNA polymerases I and III.

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Phytochrome B and histone deacetylase 6 control light-induced chromatin compaction in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 4 September 2009

Plant nuclear RNA polymerase IV mediates siRNA and DNA methylation-dependent heterochromatin formation

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Postembryonic establishment of megabase-scale gene silencing in nucleolar dominance

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Posttranscriptional gene silencing in nuclei

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Purification and transcriptional analysis of RNA polymerase I holoenzymes from broccoli (Brassica oleracea) and frog (Xenopus laevis)

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

RFLP and physical mapping with an rDNA-specific endonuclease reveals that nucleolus organizer regions of Arabidopsis thaliana adjoin the telomeres on chromosomes 2 and 4

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

RNA polymerase I holoenzyme-promoter complexes include an associated CK2-like protein kinase

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

RNA polymerase I holoenzyme-promoter interactions

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

RNA polymerase I: a multifunctional molecular machine.

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RNA polymerase V transcription guides ARGONAUTE4 to chromatin

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RNA-silencing enzymes Pol IV and Pol V in maize: more than one flavor?

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ROS3 is an RNA-binding protein required for DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis.

scientific article published on 24 September 2008

Reconstitution of siRNA Biogenesis In Vitro: Novel Reaction Mechanisms and RNA Channeling in the RNA-Directed DNA Methylation Pathway

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Relationships between transcription, silver staining, and chromatin organization of nucleolar organizers in Secale cereale

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Restricted chromosomal silencing in nucleolar dominance

scientific article published on December 4, 2001

Ribosomal gene promoter domains can function as artificial enhancers of RNA polymerase I transcription, supporting a promoter origin for natural enhancers in Xenopus

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Roles of RNA polymerase IV in gene silencing

scientific article published on July 2008

Selective nucleolus organizer inactivation in Arabidopsis is a chromosome position-effect phenomenon

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Species-specificity of rRNA gene transcription in plants manifested as a switch in RNA polymerase specificity

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Subnuclear partitioning of rRNA genes between the nucleolus and nucleoplasm reflects alternative epiallelic states

scientific article published on July 2013

Subunit compositions of the RNA-silencing enzymes Pol IV and Pol V reveal their origins as specialized forms of RNA polymerase II

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The Arabidopsis chromatin-modifying nuclear siRNA pathway involves a nucleolar RNA processing center

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

The RNA polymerase I transactivator upstream binding factor requires its dimerization domain and high-mobility-group (HMG) box 1 to bend, wrap, and positively supercoil enhancer DNA.

scientific article published on October 1994

The RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF is a sequence-tolerant HMG-box protein that can recognize structured nucleic acids

scientific article published on July 1994

The Xenopus ribosomal gene enhancers bind an essential polymerase I transcription factor, xUBF

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

The epigenetics of nucleolar dominance

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The minimal ribosomal RNA gene promoter of Arabidopsis thaliana includes a critical element at the transcription initiation site

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

The two classes of genes for the major potato tuber protein, patatin, are differentially expressed in tubers and roots.

scientific article published on March 1987

Transcription and tyranny in the nucleolus: the organization, activation, dominance and repression of ribosomal RNA genes

scientific article published on 12 August 2002

Transcriptional analysis of nucleolar dominance in polyploid plants: biased expression/silencing of progenitor rRNA genes is developmentally regulated in Brassica

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Transgene-induced RNA interference as a tool for plant functional genomics

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Transgene-induced RNA interference: a strategy for overcoming gene redundancy in polyploids to generate loss-of-function mutations

scientific article published in October 2003

Transient expression in Arabidopsis thaliana protoplasts derived from rapidly established cell suspension cultures

scientific article published on 01 March 1993

Two-dimensional RFLP analyses reveal megabase-sized clusters of rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis thaliana, suggesting local spreading of variants as the mode for gene homogenization during concerted evolution

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

Uniting the paths to gene silencing

scientific article published on 7 October 2002

Use of RFLPs larger than 100 kbp to map the position and internal organization of the nucleolus organizer region on chromosome 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

VIM1, a methylcytosine-binding protein required for centromeric heterochromatinization

scientific article published on 22 January 2007

Xenopus ribosomal RNA gene intergenic spacer elements conferring transcriptional enhancement and nucleolar dominance-like competition in oocytes

scientific article published on 21 June 2002

rRNA gene silencing and nucleolar dominance: insights into a chromosome-scale epigenetic on/off switch

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rUBF, an RNA polymerase I transcription factor from rats, produces DNase I footprints identical to those produced by xUBF, its homolog from frogs

scientific article published in July 1990

siRNA and miRNA processing: new functions for Cajal bodies.

scientific article published on 11 March 2008