Genetic analysis of RNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1677, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 129-141

  Matzke, Marjori ^a   Aufsatz, Werner ^a   Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Daxinger, Lucia ^a   Papp, Istvan ^a   Mette, M Florian ^a   Matzke, Antonius J M ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dicer; DNA methylation; Histone deacetylase; MicroRNA; Short interfering RNA; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC);

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HETEROCHROMATIN; MICRORNAS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 1542328263     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2003.10.015     Document Type: Review

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