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Using The Intact Method To Study Pickle In Individual Cell Types, Jacqueline L. Phipps, Daniela N. Martir, Ben Carter, Joe Ogas
Using The Intact Method To Study Pickle In Individual Cell Types, Jacqueline L. Phipps, Daniela N. Martir, Ben Carter, Joe Ogas
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Cell differentiation is an essential part of development in multicellular organisms. Cells with identical genomic DNA are able to differentiate into a variety of tissues due to selective expression and repression of genes. This tissue-specific gene expression is enabled in part by proteins called chromatin remodelers, which can move, remove, or restructure histone proteins to restrict or allow physical access to genomic DNA. PICKLE (PKL) is a member of the CHD family of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers that promotes cellular identity in the plant model organism Arabidopsis thaliana. PKL promotes cell identity by silencing embryonic genes during seed germination by promoting …