The Arabidopsis HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN1 homolog (TERMINAL FLOWER2) silences genes within the euchromatic region but not genes positioned in heterochromatin

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1747-1756

  Nakahigashi, Kenji ^a,b   Jasencakova, Zuzana ^c   Schubert, Ingo ^c   Goto, Koji ^a,b  

^a Research Institute for Biological Science OKAYAMA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Gene silencing; Heterochromatin; HP 1; Plant development

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN SPECIFIC NONHISTONE CHROMOSOMAL PROTEIN HP 1; HETEROCHROMATIN-SPECIFIC NONHISTONE CHROMOSOMAL PROTEIN HP-1; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 28544433646     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci195     Document Type: Article

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