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SUBMITTER: de Mendoza A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5890265 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Mendoza Alex A Bonnet Amandine A Vargas-Landin Dulce B DB Ji Nanjing N Li Hongfei H Yang Feng F Li Ling L Hori Koichi K Pflueger Jahnvi J Buckberry Sam S Ohta Hiroyuki H Rosic Nedeljka N Lesage Pascale P Lin Senjie S Lister Ryan R
Nature communications 20180409 1
Transposable elements are in a constant arms race with the silencing mechanisms of their host genomes. One silencing mechanism commonly used by many eukaryotes is dependent on cytosine methylation, a covalent modification of DNA deposited by C5 cytosine methyltransferases (DNMTs). Here, we report how two distantly related eukaryotic lineages, dinoflagellates and charophytes, have independently incorporated DNMTs into the coding regions of distinct retrotransposon classes. Concomitantly, we show ...[more]