DNA hypomethylation reduces homologous pairing of inserted tandem repeat arrays in somatic nuclei of Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 531-540

  Watanabe, Koichi ^a   Pecinka, Ales ^b   Meister, Armin ^b   Schubert, Ingo ^b   Lam, Eric ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; DNA methylation; Heterochromatin; Somatic pairing; Tandem repeat arrays

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; SOMATIC PAIRING; TANDEM REPEAT ARRAYS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CELLS; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DDM1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MET1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; LACTOSE OPERON; MUTATION; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HETEROCHROMATIN; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33644684603     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2005.02546.x     Document Type: Article

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