Table 1.
BLAST Analysis of Selected Maize CMEs with the Arabidopsis Protein Database
| Protein Family | Maize Locus | At Homolog | At Gene | Function | % Identity | E Values |
| SNF2 | chr106 | AT5G66750 | DDM1 | Maintenance of Cyt methylation | 63 | e-126 |
| DMT | dmt102 | AT1G69770 | CMT3 | Maintenance of CNG methylation | 50 | 0 |
| DMT | dmt103 | AT5G14620 | DRM2 | de novo methylation | 51 | e-151 |
| DMT | dmt103 | AT5G15380 | DRM1 | de novo methylation | 51 | e-149 |
| DMT | dmt105 | AT4G19020 | CMT3 | Maintenance of CNG methylation | 51 | 0 |
| HDA | hdt104 | AT3G44750 | HD2A | Histone deacetylase | 42 | 2e-51 |
| Histone | hon101 | AT2G18050 | HIS1-3 | Histone linker | 52 | e-24 |
The maize locus nomenclature is according to CHROMDB. Percentage of identity was calculated using the complete length of the predicted maize protein.