Arabidopsis MET1 cytosine methyltransferase mutants

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1109-1122

  Kankel, Mark W ^a,b   Ramsey, Douglas E ^a,c   Stokes, Trevor L ^a,d   Flowers, Susan K ^a   Haag, Jeremy R ^a   Jeddeloh, Jeffrey A ^a,e   Riddle, Nicole C ^a,f   Verbsky, Michelle L ^a,g   Richards, Eric J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Orion Genomics   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^g Divergence Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DDM1 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FLOWERING; GENE FWA; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; INHERITANCE; MET1 GENE; METHYLATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLANT LEAVES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037354734     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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