Ten members of the Arabidopsis gene family encoding methyl-CpG-binding domain proteins are transcriptionally active and at least one, AtMBD11, is crucial for normal development

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 5291-5304

  Berg, Anita ^a   Meza, Trine J ^a   Mahić, Mirela ^a   Thorstensen, Tage ^a   Kristiansen, Kjetil ^a   Aalen, Reidunn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; FLOWERING; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENICS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0344443367     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg735     Document Type: Article

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