Dimethylation of histone H3 lysine 9 is a critical mark for DNA methylation and gene silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana

Chromosoma

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 308-315

  Jackson, James P ^a   Johnson, Lianna ^a   Jasencakova, Zuzana ^b   Zhang, Xing ^c   PerezBurgos, Laura ^d   Singh, Prim B ^e   Cheng, Xiaodong ^c   Schubert, Ingo ^b   Jenuwein, Thomas ^d   Jacobsen, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LYSINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; LYSINE; PRECIPITIN TESTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 11144354402     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-004-0275-7     Document Type: Article

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