Atypical RNA polymerase subunits required for RNA-directed DNA methylation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 761-765

  Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Huettel, Bruno ^a   Mette, M Florian ^a,c   Aufsatz, Werner ^a   Jaligot, Estelle ^a   Daxinger, Lucia ^a   Kreil, David P ^b   Matzke, Marjori ^a   Matzke, Antonius J M ^a  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^b C/O IAM ^*  (Austria)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; PROTEIN DRD1; PROTEIN DRD2; PROTEIN DRD3; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE IV, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 22844447304     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1580     Document Type: Article

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