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Antonius J. M. Matzke

Antonius J. M. Matzke

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Genetics

D-Index
63
Citations
17177
World Ranking
2867
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Wittgenstein Award

Overview

Antonius J. M. Matzke is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a specialization in molecular biology and plant science.

Their work encompasses various aspects of RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, plant molecular biology research, plant gene expression analysis, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Tatsuo Kanno, Marjori Matzke, Ming-Tsung Wu, Phebe Chiou, and Wen-Dar Lin.

Matzke's notable papers include:

  • A Collection of Pre-mRNA Splicing Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2020, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • A GFP splicing reporter in a coilin mutant background reveals links between alternative splicing, siRNAs, and coilin function in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2023, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • AGFPsplicing reporter in acoilinmutant background reveals links between alternative splicing, siRNAs and coilin function inArabidopsis thaliana, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Identification and functional categorization of the most stably and most variably expressed genes and retained introns inArabidopsis thalianaseedlings, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The venues where Matzke has frequently published include G3 Genes Genomes Genetics and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Antonius J. M. Matzke was awarded the Wittgenstein Award in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Transcriptional silencing and promoter methylation triggered by double-stranded RNA

    M.F. Mette;W. Aufsatz;J. van der Winden;M.A. Matzke

  • How and Why Do Plants Inactivate Homologous (Trans)genes

    M. A. Matzke;A. J. M. Matzke

  • Reversible methylation and inactivation of marker genes in sequentially transformed tobacco plants.

    M. A. Matzke;M. Primig;J. Trnovsky;A. J. M. Matzke

  • RNA-mediated chromatin-based silencing in plants

    Marjori Matzke;Tatsuo Kanno;Lucia Daxinger;Bruno Huettel

  • RNA: guiding gene silencing.

    Marjori Matzke;Antonius J. M. Matzke;Jan M. Kooter

  • Position effects and epigenetic silencing of plant transgenes.

    Antonius J.M. Matzke;Marjori A. Matzke

  • Atypical RNA polymerase subunits required for RNA-directed DNA methylation

    Tatsuo Kanno;Bruno Huettel;M Florian Mette;Werner Aufsatz

  • RNA-Directed DNA Methylation: The Evolution of a Complex Epigenetic Pathway in Flowering Plants.

    Marjori A. Matzke;Tatsuo Kanno;Antonius J.M. Matzke

  • Evidence for Nuclear Processing of Plant Micro RNA and Short Interfering RNA Precursors

    István Papp;M. Florian Mette;Werner Aufsatz;Lucia Daxinger

  • Regeneration of intact tobacco plants containing full length copies of genetically engineered T-DNA, and transmission of T-DNA to R1 progeny.

    Kenneth A. Barton;Kenneth A. Barton;Andrew N. Binns;Antonius J.M. Matzke;Mary-Dell Chilton

  • HDA6, a putative histone deacetylase needed to enhance DNA methylation induced by double-stranded RNA.

    Werner Aufsatz;M.Florian Mette;Johannes van der Winden;Marjori Matzke

  • Gene silencing mediated by promoter homology occurs at the level of transcription and results in meiotically heritable alterations in methylation and gene activity

    Y.-D. Park;I. Papp;E.A. Moscone;V.A. Iglesias

  • Transgene silencing by the host genome defense: implications for the evolution of epigenetic control mechanisms in plants and vertebrates.

    M. A. Matzke;M. F. Mette;A. J. M. Matzke

  • RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis.

    Werner Aufsatz;M. Florian Mette;Johannes van der Winden;Antonius J. M. Matzke

  • Involvement of Putative SNF2 Chromatin Remodeling Protein DRD1 in RNA-Directed DNA Methylation

    Tatsuo Kanno;M.Florian Mette;David P Kreil;Werner Aufsatz

  • RNA-based silencing strategies in plants

    Marjori A Matzke;Antonius J.M Matzke;Gail J Pruss;Vicki B Vance

  • Production of aberrant promoter transcripts contributes to methylation and silencing of unlinked homologous promoters in trans

    M.F. Mette;J. van der Winden;M.A. Matzke;A.J.M. Matzke

  • Genetic analysis of RNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing

    Marjori Matzke;Werner Aufsatz;Tatsuo Kanno;Lucia Daxinger

  • Molecular and cytogenetic analyses of stably and unstably expressed transgene loci in tobacco

    Victor A. Iglesias;Eduardo A. Moscone;Istvan Papp;Franz Neuhuber

  • Homology-dependent gene silencing in transgenic plants: epistatic silencing loci contain multiple copies of methylated transgenes

    A.J.M. Matzke;Franz Neuhuber;Y-D Park;P.F. Ambros

Frequent Co-Authors

Marjori Matzke
Marjori Matzke Academia Sinica
Bruno Huettel
Bruno Huettel Max Planck Society
Blake C. Meyers
Blake C. Meyers University of California, Davis
Mary-Dell Chilton
Mary-Dell Chilton Washington University in St. Louis
Andrea Barta
Andrea Barta Medical University of Vienna
Peter F. Ambros
Peter F. Ambros St Anna Children's Hospital
Eva Stoger
Eva Stoger BOKU University
Jian-Kang Zhu
Jian-Kang Zhu Southern University of Science and Technology
Hervé Vaucheret
Hervé Vaucheret University of Paris-Saclay
Ueli Grossniklaus
Ueli Grossniklaus University of Zurich

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