Silencing of transposable elements in plants

Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana

2000 • 8,948 citations

The language of covalent histone modifications

2000 • 8,260 citations

Role for a bidentate ribonuclease in the initiation step of RNA interference

2001 • 4,804 citations

The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge

1984 • 2,520 citations

Cytosine methylation and the ecology of intragenomic parasites

1997 • 1,906 citations

Methylation-Induced Repression— Belts, Braces, and Chromatin

1999 • 1,823 citations

Nested Retrotransposons in the Intergenic Regions of the Maize Genome

1996 • 1,392 citations

The rde-1 Gene, RNA Interference, and Transposon Silencing in C. elegans

1999 • 1,286 citations

Epigenetics: Regulation Through Repression

1999 • 1,215 citations

Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation

1996 • 1,097 citations

DNA methylation in health and disease

2000 • 1,055 citations

Plant Retrotransposons

1999 • 1,011 citations

Transcriptional silencing and promoter methylation triggered by double-stranded RNA

2000 • 866 citations

Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for Maintenance of CpXpG Methylation

2001 • 839 citations

mut-7 of C. elegans, Required for Transposon Silencing and RNA Interference, Is a Homolog of Werner Syndrome Helicase and RNaseD

1999 • 745 citations

Maintenance of genomic methylation requires a SWI2/SNF2-like protein

1999 • 689 citations

Loss of genomic methylation causes p53-dependent apoptosis and epigenetic deregulation

2001 • 687 citations

Mobilization of transposons by a mutation abolishing full DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

2001 • 626 citations

The Late Flowering Phenotype of fwa Mutants Is Caused by Gain-of-Function Epigenetic Alleles of a Homeodomain Gene

2000 • 576 citations

Activation of plant retrotransposons under stress conditions

1998 • 560 citations

Phenotypic Instability and Rapid Gene Silencing in Newly Formed Arabidopsis Allotetraploids

2000 • 526 citations

Mutations in ATRX, encoding a SWI/SNF-like protein, cause diverse changes in the pattern of DNA methylation

2000 • 494 citations

DNA methylation in Drosophila melanogaster

2000 • 482 citations

Undermethylation associated with retroelement activation and chromosome remodelling in an interspecific mammalian hybrid

1998 • 460 citations

Evidence that a Recent Increase in Maize Genome Size was Caused by the Massive Amplification of Intergene Retrotransposons

1998 • 429 citations

Activation of tobacco retrotransposons during tissue culture.

1993 • 373 citations

Developmental abnormalities and epimutations associated with DNA hypomethylation mutations.

1996 • 371 citations

Hybrid speciation accompanied by genomic reorganization in wild sunflowers

1995 • 367 citations

Transcriptional gene silencing in plants: targets, inducers and regulators

2001 • 348 citations

Retrotransposons as epigenetic mediators of phenotypic variation in mammals

2001 • 339 citations

DNA modification of a maize transposable element correlates with loss of activity.

1986 • 331 citations

Chromatin profiling using targeted DNA adenine methyltransferase

2001 • 317 citations

Robertson's Mutator transposons in A. thaliana are regulated by the chromatin-remodeling gene Decrease in DNA Methylation (DDM1)

2001 • 314 citations

Silencing of Retrotransposons in Arabidopsis and Reactivation by the ddm1 Mutation

2000 • 312 citations

(T<scp>RANS</scp>)G<scp>ENE</scp> S<scp>ILENCING IN</scp> P<scp>LANTS</scp>: How Many Mechanisms?

2000 • 304 citations

Differential expression of a new dominant agouti allele (Aiapy) is correlated with methylation state and is influenced by parental lineage.

1994 • 270 citations

Disruption of the plant gene MOM releases transcriptional silencing of methylated genes

2000 • 255 citations

Differential methylation of genes and retrotransposons facilitates shotgun sequencing of the maize genome

1999 • 239 citations

DNA methylation and chromatin structure affect transcriptional and post-transcriptional transgene silencing in Arabidopsis

2000 • 238 citations

Ectopic hypermethylation of flower-specific genes in Arabidopsis

2000 • 238 citations

The DNA methylation locusDDM1 is required for maintenance of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

1998 • 223 citations

Taming of transposable elements by homology-dependent gene silencing

1999 • 221 citations

A genetic link between co-suppression and RNA interference in C. elegans

2000 • 214 citations

RNA-based silencing strategies in plants

2001 • 212 citations

An Inverted Repeat Triggers Cytosine Methylation of Identical Sequences in Arabidopsis

1999 • 187 citations

Paramutation in maize.

2000 • 160 citations

Release of epigenetic gene silencing by trans-acting mutations in Arabidopsis

1998 • 157 citations

Endogenous Targets of Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Arabidopsis

2000 • 154 citations

Inactivation of maize transposon Mu suppresses a mutant phenotype by activating an outward-reading promoter near the end of Mu1.

1991 • 145 citations

The Complete Sequence of a Heterochromatic Island from a Higher Eukaryote

2000 • 129 citations

Cytosine methylation of repeated sequences in eukaryotes: the role of DNA pairing

1998 • 121 citations

SINE retroposons can be used in vivo as nucleation centers for de novo methylation.

2000 • 86 citations

Activity of the transposon Tam3 in Antirrhinum and tobacco: possible role of DNA methylation.

1989 • 85 citations

Comparison of genetic behaviour of the transposable element Tam3 at two unlinked pigment loci in Antirrhinum majus

1987 • 84 citations

Trans-Sensing Effects: The Ups and Downs of Being Together

1998 • 83 citations

Making noise about silence: repression of repeated genes in animals

2000 • 79 citations

SINE Retroposons Can Be Used In Vivo as Nucleation Centers for De Novo Methylation

2000 • 77 citations

The Maize Transposable Element Activator (Ac)

1996 • 69 citations

Efficient insertion mutagenesis of Arabidopsis by tissue culture‐induced activation of the tobacco retrotransposon Tto1

2000 • 64 citations

Copy number control of a transposable element, the I factor, a LINE-like element in Drosophila

1998 • 53 citations

Alternative silencing effects involve distinct types of non-spreading cytosine methylation at a three-gene, single-copy transgenic locus in rice

2000 • 38 citations

The Suppressor-mutator element and the evolutionary riddle of transposons

1999 • 33 citations

Transcriptional gene silencing mutants.

2000 • 29 citations

Epigenetic Silencing of Mu Transposable Elements in Maize

1996 • 25 citations

Epigenetic Regulation of the Maize Spm Transposable Element

1996 • 16 citations