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ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: Yijun Qi
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-36500 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Ye Ruiqiang R Wang Wei W Iki Taichiro T Liu Chang C Wu Yang Y Ishikawa Masayuki M Zhou Xueping X Qi Yijun Y
Molecular cell 20120517 6
In plants, DNA methylation can be mediated by a class of Argonaute4 (AGO4)-associated heterochromatic siRNAs (hc-siRNAs), through a pathway termed RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM). It has been thought that RdDM is solely a nuclear process, as both the biogenesis and functioning of hc-siRNAs take place in the nucleus. In this study, we unexpectedly found that hc-siRNAs are predominantly present in the cytoplasm. We demonstrated that AGO4 is loaded with hc-siRNAs in the cytoplasm and the format ...[more]