transposable element silencing by siRNA-mediated DNA methylation
A transposable element silencing mechanism mediated by RNA-directed DNA methylation. RNA-directed DNA methylation is a gene silencing process in which small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) guide DNA methylation to the siRNA-generating genomic loci and other loci that are homologous to the siRNAs for de novo DNA methylation. This results in a heterochromatin assembly, a chromatin conformation that is refractory to transcription.
GO:0080188
gene silencing by siRNA-directed DNA methylation
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GO:0141005
transposable element silencing by heterochromatin formation
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retrostransposon silencing by RdDM
exact
retrotransposon silencing by RNA-directed DNA methylation
related
retrotransposon silencing by siRNA-directed DNA methylation
narrow
transposable element silencing by siRNA-directed DNA methylation
exact