Harris, C. Jake; Scheibe, Marion; Wongpalee, Somsakul Pop; Liu, Wanlu; Cornett, Evan M.; Vaughan, Robert M.; Li, Xueqin; Chen, Wei; Xue, Yan; Zhong, Zhenhui; Yen, Linda; Barshop, William D.; Rayatpisheh, Shima; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Groth, Martin(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018-12-07)
[EN] DNA methylation generally functions as a repressive transcriptional signal, but it is also known to activate gene expression. In either case, the downstream factors remain largely unknown. By using comparative ...
Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Kami, C; Fankhauser, Christian; Alabadí Diego, David; Blazquez Rodriguez, Miguel Angel(American Society of Plant Biologists, 2011-08)
[EN] Plants orient their growth depending on directional stimuli such as light and gravity, in a process known as tropic response. Tropisms result from asymmetrical accumulation of auxin across the responding organ relative ...
Zhai, Jixian; Bischof, Sylvain; Wang, Haifeng; Feng, Suhua; Lee, Tzuu-Fen; Teng, Chong; Chen, Xinyuan; Park, Soo Young; Liu, Linshan; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Liu, Wanlu; Henderson, Ian R; Meyers, Blake C.; Ausin, Israel; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Elsevier, 2015-10-08)
[EN] RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana is driven by the plant-specific RNA Polymerase IV (Pol IV). It has been assumed that a Pol IV transcript can give rise to multiple 24-nt small interfering RNAs ...
Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Liu, Wanlu; Kuo, Peggy Hsuanyu; Feng, Suhua; Ghoshal, Basudev; Gardiner, Jason; Zhao, Jenny Miao-Chi; Park, Soo Young; Chory, Joanne; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Elsevier, 2019-02-21)
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The RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway in plants controls gene expression via cytosine DNA methylation. The ability to manipulate RdDM would shed light on the mechanisms and applications of DNA methylation ...
[EN] Over millions of years, eukaryotes evolved from unicellular to multicellular organisms with increasingly complex genomes and sophisticated gene expression networks. Consequently, chromatin regulators evolved to support ...
Wongpalee, Somsakul Pop; Liu, Shiheng; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Leitner, Alexander; Aebersold, Ruedi; Liu, Wanlu; Yen, Linda; Nohales, Maria A.; Kuo, Peggy Hsuanyu; Vashisht, Ajay A.; Wohlschlegel, James A.; Feng, Suhua; Kay, Steve A.; Zhou, Z. Hong; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Nature Publishing Group, 2019-09-02)
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Transcription by RNA polymerase V (Pol V) in plants is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation, leading to transcriptional gene silencing. Global chromatin association of Pol V requires components of the DDR complex ...
Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Alabadí Diego, David; Blazquez Rodriguez, Miguel Angel(Public Library of Science, 2011)
The hormones gibberellins (GAs) control a wide variety of processes in plants, including stress and developmental responses. This task largely relies on the activity of the DELLA proteins, nuclear-localized transcriptional ...
Gallego Bartolomé, Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011-08-01)
The plant hormones gibberellins (GAs) regulate multiple processes of plant development. Most of this regulation occurs at the transcriptional level, through the activity of the DELLAs, which are nuclear-localized proteins ...
[EN] DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that regulates multiple processes, such as gene expression and genome stability. Mutants and pharmacological treatments have been instrumental in the study of this mark in plants, ...
Ausin, Israel; Feng, Suhua; Yu, Chaowei; Liu, Wanlu; Kuo, Hsuan Yu; Jacobsen, Elise L.; Zhai, Jixian; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Wang, Lin; Egertsdotter, Ulrika; Street, Nathaniel R.; Jacobsen, Steven E.; Wang, Haifeng(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016-12-13)
[EN] DNA methylation plays important roles in many biological processes, such as silencing of transposable elements, imprinting, and regulating gene expression. Many studies of DNA methylation have shown its essential roles ...
[EN] The ability to target epigenetic marks like DNA methylation to specific loci is important in both basic research and in crop plant engineering. However, heritability of targeted DNA methylation, how it impacts gene ...
Alabadí, David; Gallego-Bartolomé, Javier; Orlando, Leonardo; García-Cárcel, Laura; Rubio, Vicente; Martínez, Cristina; Frigerio, Martín; Iglesias-Pedraz, Juan Manuel; Espinosa, Ana; Wang Deng, Xing; BLAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ, MIGUEL ANGEL(Blackwell Publishing, 2008-01)
[EN] In many plants, photomorphogenesis is the default developmental program after seed germination, and provides the key features that allow adaptation to light. This program is actively repressed if germination occurs ...
Deleris, Angelique; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Bao, Jinsong; Kasschau, Kristin D.; Carrinton, James C.; Voinnet, Olivier(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2006-07-07)
[EN] The mechanisms underlying induction and suppression of RNA silencing in the ongoing plant-virus arms race are poorly understood. We show here that virus-derived small RNAs produced by Arabidopsis Dicer-like 4 (DCL4) ...
Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Arana, María Verónica; Vandenbussche, Filip; Zadnikova, P.; Minguet, E.G.; Guardiola Herraez, Vicente Gerardo; Van der Straeten, Dominique; Benková, Eva; Alabadí Diego, David; Blazquez Rodriguez, Miguel Angel(Wiley, 2011-08)
[EN] The apical hook develops in the upper part of the hypocotyl when seeds buried in the soil germinate, and serves to protect cotyledons and the shoot apical meristem from possible damage caused by pushing through the ...
Stavang, Jon A.; Gallego-Bartolomé, J.; Gómez Jiménez, Maria Dolores; Yoshida, Shigeo; Asami, Tadao; Olsen, Jorunn E.; García-Martínez, José L.; ALABADÍ DIEGO, DAVID; BLAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ, MIGUEL ANGEL(Blackwell Publishing, 2009-11)
[EN] Successful plant survival depends upon the proper integration of information from the environment with endogenous cues to regulate growth and development. We have investigated the interplay between ambient temperature ...
Hale, Christopher J.; Potok, Magdalena E.; Lopez, Jennifer; Do, Truman; Liu, Ao; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Michaels, Scott D.; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Public Library of Science, 2016-06)
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Eukaryotic genomes are regulated by epigenetic marks that act to modulate transcriptional control as well as to regulate DNA replication and repair. In Arabidopsis thaliana, mutation of the ATXR5 and ATXR6 histone ...
Candela-Ferre, Joan; Diego-Martín, Borja; Pérez-Alemany, Jaime; Gallego-Bartolomé, Javier(American Society of Plant Biologists, 2024-03-29)
[EN] Chromatin plays a crucial role in genome compaction and is fundamental for regulating multiple nuclear processes. Nucleosomes, the basic building blocks of chromatin, are central in regulating these processes, determining ...
Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Minguet, Eugenio G.; Grau Enguix, Federico; Abbas, Mohamad; Locascio, Antonella Anna Maria; Thomas, Stephen G.; Alabadí Diego, David; Blazquez Rodriguez, Miguel Angel(National Academy of Sciences, 2012-07-14)
[EN] Plant development is modulated by the convergence of multiple environmental and endogenous signals, and the mechanisms that allow the integration of different signaling pathways is currently being unveiled. A paradigmatic ...
Zhong, Xuehua; Du, Jiamu; Hale, Christopher J; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Feng, Suhua; Vashisht, Ajay A.; Chory, Joanne; Wohlschlegel, James A.; Patel, Dinshaw J.; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Elsevier, 2014-05-26)
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DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic generegulation mechanism. DOMAINS REARRANGED METHYLTRANSFERASE (DRM) is a key de novo methyltransferase in plants, but how DRM acts mechanistically is poorly understood. ...
[EN] Gravitropism aligns plant growth with gravity. It involves gravity perception and the asymmetric distribution of the phytohormone auxin. Here we provide insights into the mechanism for hypocotyl gravitropic growth. ...