NDLI: Restricted chromosomal silencing in nucleolar dominance

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Author	Lewis, Michelle S. Pikaard, Craig S.
Copyright Year	2001
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 ≈4 Mbp in size, are ≈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 ≈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.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.251424098
Ending Page	14540
Page Count	5
Starting Page	14536
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	25
Volume Number	98
Language	English
Publisher	The National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2001-12-04
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	The National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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