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SUBMITTER: Moreno-Romero J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4910532 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moreno-Romero Jordi J Jiang Hua H Santos-González Juan J Köhler Claudia C
The EMBO journal 20160425 12
Parental genomes in the endosperm are marked by differential DNA methylation and are therefore epigenetically distinct. This epigenetic asymmetry is established in the gametes and maintained after fertilization by unknown mechanisms. In this manuscript, we have addressed the key question whether parentally inherited differential DNA methylation affects de novo targeting of chromatin modifiers in the early endosperm. Our data reveal that polycomb-mediated H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) is ...[more]