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Surprisingly, only top grafting resulted in scions that were systemically silenced by a rootstock signal.
2% of CC [ 13 ] . HIC1 is a zinc finger transcription factor that is transcriptionally silenced by promoter methylation in several types of human cancer [ 26 ] . Heterozygous Hic1 mouse with promoter methylation of wild type allele develop carcinomas, sarcomas and lymphomas, suggesting that this gene acts as a tumor suppressor gene [ 27 ] . HIC1 gene was down regulated in majority of the CC cell lines examined by us and this down-regulated expression was reactivated upon treatment with demethylating and HDAC-inhibiting agents.
These results underscore the similarity between trans-silencing and paramutation, because in both cases epialleles are often silenced incompletely and may also adopt novel regulatory patterns [ 4 10 ] , for example light inducibility [ 33 ] . Perhaps, silencing at the dimeric E82 locus involves a hierarchical relationship between its two intact T-DNAs.
Other 35S:GFP-COP1 loci become transcriptionally silenced upon exposure to the C73 locus (Fig.