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Spreading of silencing was unidirectional from stock to scion.
Using a combination of the RNA interference approach of silencing gene function and a high-throughput cell culture assay, Foley and O'Farrell (2004) report the identification of two new conserved members of this Imd pathway: Sickie is a novel protein required for Relish activation, and Defense repressor 1 is a novel inhibitor of the Dredd caspase.
This silencing pathway uses short RNAs produced by Dicer and other RNAi components to direct methylation of DNA-associated proteins (histones), thus generating condensed, transcriptionally silent chromosome regions (heterochromatin) (see Figure 1).
The history of gene silencing research shows once again that plants offer outstanding experimental systems for elucidating general biological principles.
They proposed that the small RNAs provided the all-important specificity determinant for silencing.