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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ikeda Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5418596 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20170503
Transposable elements (TEs) are prevalent in most eukaryotes, and host genomes have devised silencing strategies to rein in TE activity. One of these, transcriptional silencing, is generally associated with DNA methylation and short interfering RNAs. Here we show that the Arabidopsis genes MAIL1 and MAIN define an alternative silencing pathway independent of DNA methylation and short interfering RNAs. Mutants for MAIL1 or MAIN exhibit release of silencing and appear to show impaired condensation ...[more]