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Marjori Matzke
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Faculty Member: Plant Biology > Plant Genetics & Gene Expression [ since 4 July 2001 ]
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Sponsorship

Marjori Matzke sponsors free access to F1000 for Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Selangor, Malaysia. Supporting F1000's initiative to make itself available to scientists in all countries, including free access to developing countries (more details).

Biography

1980 PhD, Cell Biology, University of Kansas

1980-1982 NIH postdoctoral associate: Washington University, St. Louis, Plant Molecular Biology

1982-present Research Scientist, Institute of Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Salzburg, Austria. Research group co-led by my husband, Antonius Matzke, on plant gene silencing, nuclear membrane ion transporters, plant genome evolution

Home page

http://www.gmi.oeaw.ac.at/amatzke.htm

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Evaluations

Origins and evolution of eukaryotic RNA interference.
Shabalina SA, Koonin EV
Trends Ecol Evol 2008 Aug 18 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 5 Sep 2008


Conifers have a unique small RNA silencing signature.
Dolgosheina EV, Morin RD, …, Mattsson J, Unrau PJ
RNA 2008 Jun 19 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 24 Jun 2008

Genetic analysis of Israel acute paralysis virus: distinct clusters are circulating in the United States.
Palacios G, Hui J, …, Briese T, Lipkin WI
J Virol 2008 Jul 82(13):6209-17 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 16 Jun 2008

A requirement for DICER to maintain full promoter CpG island hypermethylation in human cancer cells.
Ting AH, Suzuki H, …, Tokino T, Baylin SB
Cancer Res 2008 Apr 15 68(8):2570-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 22 Apr 2008

GADD45A Does Not Promote DNA Demethylation.
Jin S-G, Guo C, Pfeifer GP
PLoS Genet 2008 4:e1000013 [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 25 Mar 2008

Unintentional miRNA Ablation is a Risk Factor in Gene Knockout Studies: A Short Report.
Osokine I, Hsu R, Loeb GB, McManus MT
PLoS Genet 2008 Feb 15 4:e34 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Isaac Kohane / Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 26 Feb 2008

Developmental control in animals and a biological role for DNA charge transfer.
Elson E
Prog Biophys Mol Biol 2007 Sep-Nov 95(1-3):1-15 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 28 Jan 2008

Protein interactions: is seeing believing?
Mackay JP, Sunde M, …, Crossley M, Matthews JM
Trends Biochem Sci 2007 Dec 32(12):530-1 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 22 Nov 2007

A Novel Snf2 Protein Maintains trans-Generational Regulatory States Established by Paramutation in Maize.
Hale CJ, Stonaker JL, Gross SM, Hollick JB
PLoS Biology 2007 5:e275 [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 16 Oct 2007

Pollen lethality: a phenomenon in Arabidopsis RNA interference plants.
Xing S, Zachgo S
Plant Physiol 2007 Oct 145(2):330-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 9 Oct 2007

Element biofortification: can mycorrhizas potentially offer a more effective and sustainable pathway to curb human malnutrition?
He X, Nara K
Trends Plant Sci 2007 Aug 12(8):331-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 5 Oct 2007

Carbodiimide-mediated cross-linking of RNA to nylon membranes improves the detection of siRNA, miRNA and piRNA by northern blot.
Pall GS, Codony-Servat C, Ritchie L, Hamilton A
Nucleic Acids Res 2007 35:60 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 21 Aug 2007

Promoter-associated RNA is required for RNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in human cells.
Han J, Kim D, Morris KV
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 Jul 24 104(30):12422-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Paul Kaufman
Evaluated 19 Jul 2007

Control of DNA methylation and heterochromatic silencing by histone H2B deubiquitination.
Sridhar VV, Kapoor A, …, Bressan RA, Zhu JK
Nature 2007 Jun 7 447(7145):735-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Liz Dennis
Evaluated 12 Jun 2007

Origin and evolution of human microRNAs from transposable elements.
Piriyapongsa J, Mariño-Ramírez L, Jordan IK
Genetics 2007 Jun 176(2):1323-37 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 3 May 2007

Why are there still over 1000 uncharacterized yeast genes?
Peña-Castillo L, Hughes TR
Genetics 2007 May 176(1):7-14 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 30 Apr 2007

A structured viroid RNA serves as a substrate for dicer-like cleavage to produce biologically active small RNAs but is resistant to RNA-induced silencing complex-mediated degradation.
Itaya A, Zhong X, …, Nelson RS, Ding B
J Virol 2007 Mar 81(6):2980-94 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 16 Apr 2007

Role of Arabidopsis AGO6 in siRNA accumulation, DNA methylation and transcriptional gene silencing.
Zheng X, Zhu J, Kapoor A, Zhu JK
EMBO J 2007 Mar 21 26(6):1691-701 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 5 Mar 2007

Dnmt2 functions in the cytoplasm to promote liver, brain, and retina development in zebrafish.
Rai K, Chidester S, …, Jones DA, Cairns BR
Genes Dev 2007 Feb 1 21(3):261-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 19 Feb 2007

A multistep process gave rise to RNA polymerase IV of land plants.
Luo J, Hall BD
J Mol Evol 2007 Jan 64(1):101-12 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 29 Jan 2007

Four plant Dicers mediate viral small RNA biogenesis and DNA virus induced silencing.
Blevins T, Rajeswaran R, …, Hohn T, Pooggin MM
Nucleic Acids Res 2006 34(21):6233-46 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 21 Nov 2006

Plant genetics: increased outcrossing in hothead mutants.
Peng P, Chan SW, Shah GA, Jacobsen SE
Nature 2006 Sep 28 443(7110):E8; discussion E8-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Christian Hardtke
Evaluated 2 Oct 2006

Gene expression: long-term gene silencing by RNAi.
Vastenhouw NL, Brunschwig K, …, Tijsterman M, Plasterk RH
Nature 2006 Aug 24 442(7105):882 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Nektarios Tavernarakis
Evaluated 1 Sep 2006

Whole genome RNAi screens for increased longevity: important new insights but not the whole story.
Lee SS
Exp Gerontol 2006 Oct 41(10):968-73 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 15 Aug 2006

Active cytosine demethylation triggered by a nuclear receptor involves DNA strand breaks.
Kress C, Thomassin H, Grange T
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 Jul 25 103(30):11112-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 18 Jul 2006

Swi6/HP1 recruits a JmjC domain protein to facilitate transcription of heterochromatic repeats.
Zofall M, Grewal SI
Mol Cell 2006 Jun 9 22(5):681-92 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Francis Stewart / Daniel Reines
Evaluated 15 Jun 2006

Is RNA interference involved in intrinsic antiviral immunity in mammals?
Cullen BR
Nat Immunol 2006 Jun 7(6):563-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 31 May 2006

The assembly and maintenance of heterochromatin initiated by transgene repeats are independent of the RNA interference pathway in mammalian cells.
Wang F, Koyama N, …, Reith W, Tsukamoto T
Mol Cell Biol 2006 Jun 26(11):4028-40 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 25 May 2006

DEMETER and REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 encode 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases.
Morales-Ruiz T, Ortega-Galisteo AP, …, Ariza RR, Roldán-Arjona T
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 May 2 103(18):6853-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 26 Apr 2006

Molecular cytogenetics and allotetraploidy in the red vizcacha rat, Tympanoctomys barrerae (Rodentia, Octodontidae).
Gallardo MH, González CA, Cebrián I
Genomics 2006 Aug 88(2):214-21 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 10 Apr 2006

Genetic and biochemical evidence for involvement of HOTHEAD in the biosynthesis of long-chain alpha-,omega-dicarboxylic fatty acids and formation of extracellular matrix.
Kurdyukov S, Faust A, …, Saedler H, Yephremov A
Planta 2006 Jul 224(2):315-29 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 20 Mar 2006

Prelamin A and lamin A appear to be dispensable in the nuclear lamina.
Fong LG, Ng JK, …, Bergo MO, Young SG
J Clin Invest 2006 Mar 116(3):743-52 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Yosef Gruenbaum
Evaluated 7 Mar 2006

RNA silencing in Chlamydomonas: mechanisms and tools.
Schroda M
Curr Genet 2006 Feb 49(2):69-84 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 14 Feb 2006

Comparative analysis of cancer genes in the human and chimpanzee genomes.
Puente XS, Velasco G, …, King MC, López-Otín C
BMC Genomics 2006 7:15 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 1 Feb 2006

Methylation of tRNAAsp by the DNA methyltransferase homolog Dnmt2.
Goll MG, Kirpekar F, …, Jacobsen SE, Bestor TH
Science 2006 Jan 20 311(5759):395-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Xiaodong Cheng
Evaluated 23 Jan 2006

Identification by full-coverage array CGH of human DNA copy number increases relative to chimpanzee and gorilla.
Wilson GM, Flibotte S, …, Clark AG, Holt RA
Genome Res 2006 Feb 16(2):173-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 6 Jan 2006

Deletion of Peg10, an imprinted gene acquired from a retrotransposon, causes early embryonic lethality.
Ono R, Nakamura K, …, Kaneko-Ishino T, Ishino F
Nat Genet 2006 Jan 38(1):101-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 6 Jan 2006

An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output.
Hirsch JE
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 Nov 15 102(46):16569-72 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Charles Auffray
Evaluated 11 Nov 2005

EGO-1, a putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, is required for heterochromatin assembly on unpaired dna during C. elegans meiosis.
Maine EM, Hauth J, …, She X, Kelly WG
Curr Biol 2005 Nov 8 15(21):1972-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Susan Mango
Evaluated 11 Nov 2005

Inhibiting gene expression at transcription start sites in chromosomal DNA with antigene RNAs.
Janowski BA, Huffman KE, …, Minna JD, Corey DR
Nat Chem Biol 2005 Sep 1(4):216-22 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Oliver Weichenrieder
Evaluated 27 Oct 2005

Overexpression of an Arabidopsis thaliana ABC transporter confers kanamycin resistance to transgenic plants.
Mentewab A, Stewart CN
Nat Biotechnol 2005 Sep 23(9):1177-80 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 11 Oct 2005

The star-type color pattern in Petunia hybrida 'red Star' flowers is induced by sequence-specific degradation of chalcone synthase RNA.
Koseki M, Goto K, Masuta C, Kanazawa A
Plant Cell Physiol 2005 Nov 46(11):1879-83 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 22 Sep 2005

Why most published research findings are false.
Ioannidis JP
PLoS Med 2005 Aug 2(8):e124 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Andreas Wagner / Charles Auffray / Andrew Hector
Dissenters | David Sassoon
Author Response | John Ioannidis
Evaluated 8 Sep 2005



Search for a prion-specific nucleic acid.
Safar JG, Kellings K, …, Prusiner SB, Riesner D
J Virol 2005 Aug 79(16):10796-806 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Charles Auffray
Evaluated 2 Aug 2005

An Arabidopsis hAT-like transposase is essential for plant development.
Bundock P, Hooykaas P
Nature 2005 Jul 14 436(7048):282-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 26 Jul 2005

Short double-stranded RNA induces transcriptional gene silencing in human cancer cells in the absence of DNA methylation.
Ting AH, Schuebel KE, Herman JG, Baylin SB
Nat Genet 2005 Aug 37(8):906-10 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Frank Lyko / Barbara Trask
Evaluated 22 Jul 2005

The Putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase RDR6 acts synergistically with ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 and 2 to repress BREVIPEDICELLUS and MicroRNA165/166 in Arabidopsis leaf development.
Li H, Xu L, …, Xu Y, Huang H
Plant Cell 2005 Aug 17(8):2157-71 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 14 Jul 2005

RNA polymerase II is required for RNAi-dependent heterochromatin assembly.
Kato H, Goto DB, …, Furukawa K, Murakami Y
Science 2005 Jul 15 309(5733):467-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 15 Jun 2005

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase deaminates 5-methylcytosine in DNA and is expressed in pluripotent tissues: implications for epigenetic reprogramming.
Morgan HD, Dean W, …, Reik W, Petersen-Mahrt SK
J Biol Chem 2004 Dec 10 279(50):52353-60 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 1 Jun 2005

T cell lineage choice and differentiation in the absence of the RNase III enzyme Dicer.
Cobb BS, Nesterova TB, …, Smale ST, Merkenschlager M
J Exp Med 2005 May 2 201(9):1367-73 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 13 May 2005

Molecular and cytogenetic characterization of site-specific repetitive DNA sequences in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis, Trionychidae).
Yamada K, Nishida-Umehara C, Matsuda Y
Chromosome Res 2005 13(1):33-46 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 27 Apr 2005

A two-edged role for the transposable element Kiddo in the rice ubiquitin2 promoter.
Yang G, Lee YH, …, Kertbundit S, Hall TC
Plant Cell 2005 May 17(5):1559-68 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 12 Apr 2005

Functional genomic analysis of RNA interference in C. elegans.
Kim JK, Gabel HW, …, Vidal M, Ruvkun G
Science 2005 May 20 308(5725):1164-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 4 Apr 2005

Molecular cytogenetics discards polyploidy in mammals.
Svartman M, Stone G, Stanyon R
Genomics 2005 Apr 85(4):425-30 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 4 Apr 2005

Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis.
Lolle SJ, Victor JL, Young JM, Pruitt RE
Nature 2005 Mar 24 434(7032):505-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Frank Lyko / Shigeru Iida / Kay Schneitz / Judy Wall / Marjori Matzke / James Carrington / Jose Luis Riechmann / Christian Hardtke / John Bowman / James Hu / Caren Chang / Venkatesan Sundaresan / Philip Benfey / Stephan Beck / Magnus Nordborg / Neelima Sinha / Martin Parniske / Elena Alvarez-Buylla / Elizabeth Kellogg / Elizabeth Hood
Dissenters | Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado
Evaluated 31 Mar 2005


Transcriptional silencing of a transgene by RNAi in the soma of C. elegans.
Grishok A, Sinskey JL, Sharp PA
Genes Dev 2005 Mar 15 19(6):683-96 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 8 Mar 2005

Specific and potent RNAi in the nucleus of human cells.
Robb GB, Brown KM, Khurana J, Rana TM
Nat Struct Mol Biol 2005 Feb 12(2):133-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 14 Feb 2005

The Arabidopsis HOMOLOGY-DEPENDENT GENE SILENCING1 gene codes for an S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase required for DNA methylation-dependent gene silencing.
Rocha PS, Sheikh M, …, Vaucheret H, Furner I
Plant Cell 2005 Feb 17(2):404-17 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 25 Jan 2005

Global effects on gene expression in fission yeast by silencing and RNA interference machineries.
Hansen KR, Burns G, …, Bähler J, Thon G
Mol Cell Biol 2005 Jan 25(2):590-601 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 11 Jan 2005

Who gets acknowledged: measuring scientific contributions through automatic acknowledgment indexing.
Giles CL, Councill IG
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 Dec 21 101(51):17599-604 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 5 Jan 2005

Structural and functional analysis of a 0.5-Mb chicken region orthologous to the imprinted mammalian Ascl2/Mash2-Igf2-H19 region.
Yokomine T, Shirohzu H, …, Sakaki Y, Sasaki H
Genome Res 2005 Jan 15(1):154-65 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 22 Dec 2004

Evolution of dnmt-2 and mbd-2-like genes in the free-living nematodes Pristionchus pacificus, Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae.
Gutierrez A, Sommer RJ
Nucleic Acids Res 2004 32(21):6388-96 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 14 Dec 2004

The Drosophila MBD2/3 protein mediates interactions between the MI-2 chromatin complex and CpT/A-methylated DNA.
Marhold J, Kramer K, Kremmer E, Lyko F
Development 2004 Dec 131(24):6033-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke
Evaluated 25 Nov 2004

MicroRNA binding sites in Arabidopsis class III HD-ZIP mRNAs are required for methylation of the template chromosome.
Bao N, Lye KW, Barton MK
Dev Cell 2004 Nov 7(5):653-62 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]