Subnuclear partitioning of rRNA genes between the nucleolus and nucleoplasm reflects alternative epiallelic states

• Authors: PONTVIANNE Frédéric N.; BLEVINS Todd; CHANDRASEKHARA Chinmayi; MOZGOVÁ Iva; HASSEL Christiane; PONTES Olga M.F.; TUCKER Tucker; MOKROŠ Petr; MUCHOVÁ Veronika; FAJKUS Jiří; PIKAARD Craig S.
• Year of publication: 2013
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: GENES & DEVELOPMENT
• MU Faculty or unit: Central European Institute of Technology
• web: http://0-www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.elis.tmu.edu.tw/pmc/articles/PMC3731543/
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gad.221648.113
• Field: Genetics and molecular biology
• Keywords: transcription; gene silencing; DNA methylation; histone deacetylation; chromatin assembly; RNA polymerase I; ribosomal RNA gene
• Description: Eukaryotes can have thousands of 45S ribosomal RNA ( rRNA) genes, many of which are silenced during development.Collectively, the data reveal that rRNA genes occupy distinct but changeable nuclear territories according to their epigenetic state.

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