A concerted DNA methylation/histone methylation switch regulates rRNA gene dosage control and nucleolar dominance

Molecular Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 599-609

  Lawrence, Richard J ^a   Earley, Keith ^a   Pontes, Olga ^b   Silva, Manuela ^b   Chen, Z Jeffrey ^a,c   Neves, Nuno ^b   Viegas, Wanda ^b   Pikaard, Craig S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CLONE CELLS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, DOMINANT; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1542285163     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(04)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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