RNA polymerase I transcription in a Brassica interspecific hybrid and its progenitors: Tests of transcription factor involvement in nucleolar dominance

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 451-460

  Frieman, Matthew ^a,b   Jeffrey Chen, Z ^a   Saez Vasquez, Julio ^a   Annie Shen, L ^a   Pikaard, Craig S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRASSICA; CHROMOSOME; DEACETYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYBRID; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BRASSICA; CPG ISLANDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, DOMINANT; HYBRID CELLS; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOPLASTS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; BRASSICA RAPA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032947556     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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