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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2001

Restricted chromosomal silencing in nucleolar dominance.

M S Lewis, C S Pikaard

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. The development of an Arabidopsis model system for genome-wide analysis of polyploidy effects.Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London · 2004
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M S LewisBiology Department, Washington University, Campus Box 1137, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
C S Pikaard
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

MOLECULAR GENETICS OF NUCLEOLAR DOMINANCER01GM060380 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI PIKAARD, CRAIG STUART · 2000 to 2012
$3.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM060380NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM60380
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Failure of one parent's chromosomes to organize nucleoli in an interspecific hybrid is an epigenetic phenomenon known as nucleolar dominance. Selective gene silencing on a scale of millions of bp is known to be involved, but the full extent to which nucleolus organizer region (NOR)-bearing chromosomes are inactivated beyond the NORs is unknown. Aided by genome sequence data for Arabidopsis thaliana, we have mapped the extent of nucleolar dominance-induced silencing in Arabidopsis suecica, the allotetraploid hybrid of A. thaliana and Arabidopsis arenosa. Using a sensitive reverse transcription PCR assay, we show that the four A. thaliana NORs, each approximately 4 Mbp in size, are approximately 99.5% silenced in A. suecica vegetative leaves, whereas the NORs inherited from A. arenosa remain fully active. The two A. thaliana NORs, NOR2 and NOR4, abut the telomeres on chromosomes 2 and 4, thus there are no genes distal to the NORs. The three protein-coding genes nearest NOR4 on its centromere-proximal side, the closest of which is only 3.1 kb from rRNA gene sequences, are shown to be transcribed in the hybrid despite the silencing of the adjacent approximately 4-Mbp NOR. These data argue against hypotheses in which NOR inactivation is attributed to the spread of silencing from adjacent chromosomal regions, but favor models in which NORs or rRNA genes are the targets of regulation.

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Gene SilencingArabidopsisChromosomesGene ExpressionGenes, PlantHybridization, GeneticModels, GeneticNucleolus Organizer RegionRNA, PlantRNA, RibosomalRNA, PlantRNA, Ribosomal

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PMID11734651
PMCPMC64717
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