Roles of RNA silencing in viral and non-viral plant immunity and in the crosstalk between disease resistance systems

S Lopez-Gomollon, DC Baulcombe - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA silencing is a well-established antiviral immunity system in plants, in which small RNAs
guide Argonaute proteins to targets in viral RNA or DNA, resulting in virus repression. Virus …

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

JA Law, SE Jacobsen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

RNA-directed DNA methylation: an epigenetic pathway of increasing complexity

MA Matzke, RA Mosher - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is the major small RNA-mediated epigenetic
pathway in plants. RdDM requires a specialized transcriptional machinery that comprises …

DNA methylation pathways and their crosstalk with histone methylation

J Du, LM Johnson, SE Jacobsen… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
Methylation of DNA and of histone 3 at Lys 9 (H3K9) are highly correlated with gene
silencing in eukaryotes from fungi to humans. Both of these epigenetic marks need to be …

RNA-mediated epigenetic regulation of gene expression

D Holoch, D Moazed - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Diverse classes of RNA, ranging from small to long non-coding RNAs, have emerged as key
regulators of gene expression, genome stability and defence against foreign genetic …

RNA interference in the nucleus: roles for small RNAs in transcription, epigenetics and beyond

SE Castel, RA Martienssen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
A growing number of functions are emerging for RNA interference (RNAi) in the nucleus, in
addition to well-characterized roles in post-transcriptional gene silencing in the cytoplasm …

Long noncoding RNAs in plants

AT Wierzbicki, T Blevins… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Plants have an extraordinary diversity of transcription machineries, including five nuclear
DNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Four of these enzymes are dedicated to the production …

An siRNA pathway prevents transgenerational retrotransposition in plants subjected to stress

H Ito, H Gaubert, E Bucher, M Mirouze, I Vaillant… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Eukaryotic genomes consist to a significant extent of retrotransposons that are suppressed
by host epigenetic mechanisms, preventing their uncontrolled propagation,. However, it is …

Histone methylation in higher plants

C Liu, F Lu, X Cui, X Cao - Annual review of plant biology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Histone methylation plays a fundamental role in regulating diverse developmental
processes and is also involved in silencing repetitive sequences in order to maintain …

Regulation and function of DNA methylation in plants and animals

XJ He, T Chen, JK Zhu - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark involved in diverse biological processes.
In plants, DNA methylation can be established through the RNA-directed DNA methylation …