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Plants, as well as other highly developed multicellular
organisms, show increased DNA methylation when compared
with other eukaryotic organisms, probably due to the
need for more efficient control of transposons, or the need
for additional epigenetic regulation to control the development
of many different cell types. In humans it is well
demonstrated that DNA methylation patterns vary with cell
type and developmental stage (Meissner et al., 2008; Hodges
et al., 2009) and among individuals (Zhang et al., 2009;
Maegawa et al., 2010). However, increased methylation
may pose additional mutagenic risks since 5-methylcytosine
(5mC) deamination is repaired less efficiently than deamination
of unmethylated cytosine (Jeltsch, 2010). In plants,
genome-wide DNA methylation reprogramming occurs in
non-germline reproductive cells, which may function to
reinforce silencing of transposable elements in germ cells
(for a review, see Feng et al., 2010b), but, unlike animals,
plants are not known to undergo genome-wide waves of
demethylation in germ cells. However, reprogramming of
the DNA-packaging histone proteins takes place in the
zygote.
The N-terminal tails of core histone proteins can be
covalently modified by acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation,
sumoylation, carbonylation, and glycation (Kouzarides,
2007). The combinatorial set of modifications (histone code)
plays an essential role in regulating dynamic changes in
chromatin structure, ultimately influencing gene transcription
(Berger, 2007) in response to diverse exogenous and endogenous
stimuli including stress, pathogen attack, temperature,
light, and hormones
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