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Posttranscriptional gene silencing spreads systemically throughout the individual plants in a very characteristic manner reminiscent of viral spread.
These data, therefore, suggest that other epigenetic mechanisms involving defects in chromatin modification factors such as acetylation and methylation of histone proteins may also play role in gene silencing.
Many biologists first learned of RNA-mediated gene silencing in 1998 following the discovery, in the nematode worm
But closer inspection revealed these results were largely due to an increase in production of interferons by the immune system in response to high doses of the foreign RNA, rather than to specific silencing of any target genes.
The discovery of RNAi established a requirement for dsRNA in silencing, but details of the mechanism remained unclear.