One such possibility would be if genetic determinants of TL are Z-linked and silenced differently depending on paternal or maternal inheritance; such Z silencing through cytosin methylation has recently been verified in birds, although less pronounced than the corresponding X silencing in mammals [37] [39].
35 We propose that active promoters of linked posttranscriptionally silenced genes may be sensitive to inactivation either in cis or by in trans mechanisms.
Furthermore, potentially mutagenic enhancer activity may be maintained even when linked promoters are silenced by DNA methylation (Wang et al; and Manuel Grez, oral communication, at European Society for Gene Therapy conference, November 2006).
We performed chromatin immunoprecipitation and deep sequencing (ChIP-seq) to analyze posttranslational histone modifications: H3K4me3 and H3K36me3 associated with active promoters and transcribed genes, respectively; H3K27me3 linked to silencing, and H3K9me3 associated with constitutive heterochromatin and imprinted genes (Table S1).
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Although temporally linked, global silencing of transcription and chromatin remodeling in the oocyte genome can be experimentally dissociated and therefore must be regulated through distinct pathways.
RNA regulation is also very complex, with small RNA molecules like microRNAs (miRs) and piwi-interacting RNAs linked to transcriptional silencing, and long non-coding RNAs involved in transcriptional, post-transcriptional (e.g., RNA alternate splicing, translation) and epigenetic regulation [192].
Two of the major epigenetic signals of chromatin regulation are acetylation of histones, which results mainly in activation of gene transcription, and methylation of histones and DNA, which is mainly linked to silencing of transcription [ 13].
Apart from, or in addition to, late replication, small non-coding RNA pathways may also be involved, since these have been linked to silencing of transposable elements and repeats in meiosis.
Unlike DNA methylation, which has been linked gene silencing, these diverse histone modifications show differential patterns of activating and silencing effects on gene transcription.
