Evaluation of the impact of S-adenosylhomocysteine metabolic pools on cytosine methylation of the tobacco genome

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 347-352

  Fojtová, Miloslava ^a   Kovařík, Aleš ^a   Votruba, Ivan ^b   Holý, Antonín ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dihydroxypropyladenine; DNA methylation; Plant genome; S adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase

Indexed keywords

S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME; METHYLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0032521589     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2520347.x     Document Type: Article

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