Identification of the pollen determinant of S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility

P Sijacic, X Wang, AL Skirpan, Y Wang, PE Dowd… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Many flowering plants have adopted self-incompatibility mechanisms to prevent inbreeding
and promote out-crosses 1 . In the Solanaceae, Rosaceae and Scrophulariaceae, two …

Changes in chromatin accessibility between Arabidopsis stem cells and mesophyll cells illuminate cell type‐specific transcription factor networks

P Sijacic, M Bajic, EC McKinney, RB Meagher… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cell differentiation is driven by changes in the activity of transcription factors ( TF s) and
subsequent alterations in transcription. To study this process, differences in TF binding between …

LEUNIG and SEUSS co-repressors regulate miR172 expression in Arabidopsis flowers

B Grigorova, C Mara, C Hollender, P Sijacic… - …, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
Central to the ABCE model of flower development is the antagonistic interaction between
class A and class C genes. The molecular mechanisms underlying the AC antagonism are not …

Novel insights from live‐imaging in shoot meristem development

P Sijacic, Z Liu - Journal of integrative plant biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Microscopic imaging of fluorescent reporters for key meristem regulators in live tissues is
emerging as a powerful technique, enabling researchers to observe dynamic spatial and …

Arabidopsis TSO1 and MYB3R1 form a regulatory module to coordinate cell proliferation with differentiation in shoot and root

W Wang, P Sijacic, P Xu, H Lian… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Fundamental to plant and animal development is the regulated balance between cell
proliferation and differentiation, a process intimately tied to cell cycle regulation. In Arabidopsis, …

[HTML][HTML] Methyl-CpG-binding domain 9 (MBD9) is required for H2A. Z incorporation into chromatin at a subset of H2A. Z-enriched regions in the Arabidopsis genome

P Sijacic, DH Holder, M Bajic, RB Deal - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The SWR1 chromatin remodeling complex, which deposits the histone variant H2A.Z into
nucleosomes, has been well characterized in yeast and animals, but its composition in plants …

Identification and characterization of PiORP1, a Petunia oxysterol-binding-protein related protein involved in receptor-kinase mediated signaling in pollen, and …

AL Skirpan, PE Dowd, P Sijacic, CJ Jaworski… - Plant molecular …, 2006 - Springer
Oxysterol-binding proteins (OSBPs) and oxysterol-binding-protein related proteins (ORPs)
are encoded by most eukaryotic genomes examined to date; however, they have not yet been …

[HTML][HTML] Recessive Antimorphic Alleles Overcome Functionally Redundant Loci to Reveal TSO1 Function in Arabidopsis Flowers and Meristems

P Sijacic, W Wang, Z Liu - PLoS Genetics, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Arabidopsis TSO1 encodes a protein with conserved CXC domains known to bind DNA and
is homologous to animal proteins that function in chromatin complexes. tso1 mutants fall into …

LEUNIG_HOMOLOG and LEUNIG Regulate Seed Mucilage Extrusion in ArabidopsisF

M Bui, N Lim, P Sijacic, Z Liu - Journal of integrative plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
LEUNIG (LUG) and LEUNIG_HOMOLOG (LUH) encode two closely related Arabidopsis
proteins, belonging to the Gro/TLE family of transcriptional co‐repressors. These two genes …

[HTML][HTML] Replacement of Arabidopsis H2A. Z with human H2A. Z orthologs reveals extensive functional conservation and limited importance of the N-terminal tail …

P Sijacic, DH Holder, CG Willett, M Foroozani, RB Deal - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The incorporation of histone variants, distinct paralogs of core histones, into chromatin affects
all DNA-templated processes in the cell, including the regulation of transcription. In recent …