Nature Communications (Aug 2020)
DNA methylation is reconfigured at the onset of reproduction in rice shoot apical meristem
- Asuka Higo,
- Noriko Saihara,
- Fumihito Miura,
- Yoko Higashi,
- Megumi Yamada,
- Shojiro Tamaki,
- Tasuku Ito,
- Yoshiaki Tarutani,
- Tomoaki Sakamoto,
- Masayuki Fujiwara,
- Tetsuya Kurata,
- Yoichiro Fukao,
- Satoru Moritoh,
- Rie Terada,
- Toshinori Kinoshita,
- Takashi Ito,
- Tetsuji Kakutani,
- Ko Shimamoto,
- Hiroyuki Tsuji
Affiliations
- Asuka Higo
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
- Noriko Saihara
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
- Fumihito Miura
- Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka
- Yoko Higashi
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Megumi Yamada
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Shojiro Tamaki
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Tasuku Ito
- National Institute of Genetics
- Yoshiaki Tarutani
- National Institute of Genetics
- Tomoaki Sakamoto
- Plant Global Education Project, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Masayuki Fujiwara
- Plant Global Education Project, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Tetsuya Kurata
- Plant Global Education Project, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Yoichiro Fukao
- Plant Global Education Project, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Satoru Moritoh
- National Institute for Physiological Sciences
- Rie Terada
- Graduate School of Agriculture, Meijo University
- Toshinori Kinoshita
- Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University
- Takashi Ito
- Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka
- Tetsuji Kakutani
- National Institute of Genetics
- Ko Shimamoto
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma
- Hiroyuki Tsuji
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17963-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
The shoot apical meristem of flowering plants transitions from forming leaves to floral organs. Here Higo et al. show that DNA methylation of many transposons that are hypermethylated in gametes is established in the SAM before flowering, suggesting it protects against harmful transposition long before germ cell differentiation.
