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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 23, Pages 10507-10515Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.23.10507-10515.2005
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- NCI NIH HHS [T32 CA09110, T32 CA009110] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [T32 ES007141] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM61148, R01 GM061148] Funding Source: Medline
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Transcribed inverted repeats are potent triggers for RNA interference and RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants through the production of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). For example, a transcribed inverted repeat of endogenous genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, PAI1-PAI4, guides methylation of itself as well as two unlinked duplicated PAI genes, PAI2 and PAI3. In previous work, we found that mutations in the SUVH4/KYP histone H3 lysine 9 (H3 K9) methyltransferase cause a loss of DNA methylation on PAI2 and PAI3, but not on the inverted repeat. Here we use chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis to show that the transcribed inverted repeat carries H3 K9 methylation, which is maintained even in an suvh4 mutant. PAI1-PAI4 H3 K9 methylation and DNA methylation are also maintained in an suvh6 mutant, which is defective for a gene closely related to SUVH4. However, both epigenetic modifications are reduced at this locus in an suvh4 suvh6 double mutant. In contrast, SUVH6 does not play a significant role in maintenance of H3 K9 or DNA methylation on PAI2, transposon sequences, or centromere repeat sequences. Thus, SUVH6 is preferentially active at a dsRNA source locus versus targets for RNA-directed chromatin modifications.
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