Palomar VM, Fujii S, Rothi MH, Jaksich S, Coke AN, Wang J, Wierzbicki AT (2023) Transcription-directed membrane association organizes the chloroplast nucleoid structure. bioRxivRead preprint
Palomar VM, Jaksich S, Fujii S, Kuciński J, Wierzbicki AT (2022) High-resolution map of plastid encoded RNA polymerase binding patterns demonstrates a major role of transcription in chloroplast gene expression. Plant Journal 111: 1139-1151 Read article
Rothi MH, Tsuzuki M, Sethuraman S, Wierzbicki AT (2021) Reinforcement of transcriptional silencing by a positive feedback between DNA methylation and non-coding transcription. Nucleic Acids Research 49:9799-9808 Read article
Wierzbicki AT, Blevins T, Świeżewski S (2021) Long Noncoding RNAs in Plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology 72:245-271 Read article
Tsuzuki M, Sethuraman S, Coke AN, Rothi MH, Boyle AP, Wierzbicki AT (2020) Broad noncoding transcription suggests genome surveillance by RNA polymerase V. PNAS 117:30799-30804 Read article
Rothi MH, Sethuraman S, Dolata J, Boyle AP, Wierzbicki AT (2020) DNA methylation directs nucleosome positioning in RNA-mediated transcriptional silencing. bioRxiv Read article
Kuciński J, Chamera S, Kmera A, Rowley MJ, Fujii S, Khurana P, Nowotny M, Wierzbicki AT (2020) Evolutionary History and Activity of RNase H1-Like Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 61:1107 Read article
Guzman-Benito I, Donaire L, Amorim-Silva V, Vallarino JG, Esteban A, Wierzbicki AT, Ruiz-Ferrer V, Llave C (2019) The immune repressor BIR1 contributes to antiviral defense and undergoes transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation during viral infections. New Phytologist 224: 421 Read article
Tsuzuki M, Wierzbicki AT (2018) Buried in PEAT-discovery of a new silencing complex with opposing activities. EMBO J. 37:e100573 Read article
Rowley MJ, Rothi MH, Böhmdorfer G, Kucinski J, Wierzbicki AT (2017) Long-Range Control of Gene Expression via RNA-directed DNA Methylation. PLoS Genet. 3:e1006749 Read article
Böhmdorfer G, Sethuraman S, Rowley MJ, Krzyszton M, Rothi MH, Bouzit L, Wierzbicki AT (2016) Long non-coding RNA produced by RNA polymerase V determines boundaries of heterochromatin. eLife 5: e19092. Read article
Ye R, Chen Z, Lian B, Rowley MJ, Xia N, Chai J, Li Y, He XJ, Wierzbicki AT, Qi Y. (2016) A Dicer-Independent Route for Biogenesis of siRNAs that Direct DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis. Mol. Cell 61: 222-235. Read article
Coruh C, Cho SH, Shahid S, Liu Q, Wierzbicki AT, Axtell MJ. (2015) Comprehensive Annotation of Physcomitrella patens Small RNA Loci Reveals That the Heterochromatic Short Interfering RNA Pathway Is Largely Conserved in Land Plants. Plant Cell. 27:2148-2162. Read article
Böhmdorfer G, Wierzbicki AT. (2015) Control of Chromatin Structure by Long Noncoding RNA. Trends Cell Biol. 25:623-632. Read article
Böhmdorfer G, Rowley MJ, Kuciński J, Zhu Y, Amies I, Wierzbicki AT. (2014) RNA-directed DNA methylation requires stepwise binding of silencing factors to long non-coding RNA. Plant J. 79:181-191. Read article
Rowley MJ, Böhmdorfer G, Wierzbicki AT. (2013) Analysis of long non-coding RNAs produced by a specialized RNA polymerase in Arabidopsis thaliana. Methods. 63: 160-169. Read article
Zhu Y, Rowley MJ, Böhmdorfer G, Wierzbicki AT. (2013) A SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex acts in non-coding RNA-mediated transcriptional silencing. Mol. Cell. 49: 298-309. Read article
Zheng Q*, Rowley MJ*, Böhmdorfer G, Sandhu D, Gregory BD, Wierzbicki AT. (2013) RNA Polymerase V targets transcriptional silencing components to promoters of protein-coding genes. Plant J. 73: 179-189. [*contributed equally] Read article
Wierzbicki AT. (2012) The role of long non-coding RNA in transcriptional gene silencing. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 15:517-522. Read article
Wierzbicki AT, Cocklin R, Mayampurath A, Lister R, Rowley MJ, Gregory BD, Ecker JR, Tang H, Pikaard CS. (2012) Spatial and functional relationships among Pol V-associated loci, Pol IV-dependent siRNAs, and cytosine methylation in the Arabidopsis epigenome. Genes Dev. 26:1825-1836. Read article
Rowley MJ, Avrutsky MI, Pereira L, Wierzbicki AT. (2011) Independent chromatin binding of AGO4 and SPT5L/KTF1 mediates transcriptional gene silencing. PLoS Genet. 6: e1002120. Read article
Earley KW, Pontvianne F, Wierzbicki AT, Blevins T, Tucker S, Costa-Nunes P, Pontes O, Pikaard CS. (2010). Mechanisms of HDA6-mediated rRNA gene silencing: suppression of intergenic Pol II transcription and differential effects on maintenance versus siRNA-directed cytosine methylation. Genes Dev. 24:1119-1132. Read article
Wierzbicki AT (2010) Silencing: new faces of Morpheus’ molecule. EMBO J. 29:279-280. Read article
He XJ, Hsu YF, Zhu S, Wierzbicki AT, Pontes O, Pikaard CS, Liu HL, Wang CS Jin H and Zhu JK (2009) An Effector of RNA-Directed DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis Is an ARGONAUTE 4- and RNA-Binding Protein. Cell 137(3):498-508. Read article
Wierzbicki AT, Ream TS, Haag JR, Pikaard CS. (2009) RNA Polymerase V transcription guides ARGONAUTE4 to chromatin. Nat. Genet. 41(5):630-634. Read article
Ream TS, Haag JR, Wierzbicki AT, Nicora CD, Norbeck A, Zhu J-K, Hagen G, Guilfoyle TJ, Paša-Tolić L and Pikaard CS (2008) Subunit compositions of the RNA silencing enzymes, Pol IV and Pol V reveal their origins as specialized forms of RNA Polymerase II. Mol. Cell 33(2):192-203. Read article
Wierzbicki AT, Haag JR, Pikaard CS (2008) Noncoding transcription by RNA Polymerase Pol IVb/ Pol V mediates transcriptional silencing of overlapping and adjacent genes. Cell 135: 635-648. Read article
Pikaard CS, Haag JR, Ream T, Wierzbicki AT (2008) Roles of RNA polymerase IV in gene silencing. Trands Plant Sci. 13: 390-397. Read article
Wierzbicki AT, Jerzmanowski A (2004) Suppression of histone H1 genes in Arabidopsis results in heritable developmental defects and stochastic changes in DNA methylation. Genetics 169: 997-1008. Read article
Przewłoka MR*, Wierzbicki AT*, Ślusarczyk J, Kuraś M, Grasser KD, Stemmer C, Jerzmanowski A (2002) The „drought-inducible” histone H1s of tobacco play no role in male sterility linked to alterations in H1 variants. Planta 215: 371-379 [*contributed equally] Read article
Ślusarczyk J, Wierzbicki AT, Przewłoka MR, Tykarska T, Jerzmanowski A, Kuraś M (2002) Influence of change in the proportion of H1 histone variants on microsporogenesis and development of male gametophyte in transgenic plants of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) Acta Soc. Bot. Pol. 72: 25-35.
