Nature Communications (May 2017)

Arabidopsis proteins with a transposon-related domain act in gene silencing

  • Yoko Ikeda,
  • Thierry Pélissier,
  • Pierre Bourguet,
  • Claude Becker,
  • Marie-Noëlle Pouch-Pélissier,
  • Romain Pogorelcnik,
  • Magdalena Weingartner,
  • Detlef Weigel,
  • Jean-Marc Deragon,
  • Olivier Mathieu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15122
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Host genomes have evolved multiple silencing mechanisms to repress transposable element activity. Here Ikedaet al. show that the Arabidopsis MAIL1 and MAINgenes encode a retrotransposon-related plant mobile domain and define an alternative silencing pathway largely independent of DNA methylation and siRNAs.