RNA-directed DNA methylation mediated by DRD1 and Pol IVb: A versatile pathway for transcriptional gene silencing in plants

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1769, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 358-374

  Huettel, Bruno ^a   Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Daxinger, Lucia ^a   Bucher, Etienne ^a   van der Winden, Johannes ^a   Matzke, Antonius J M ^a   Matzke, Marjori ^a  

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

Author keywords

DNA demethylation; Heterochromatin; Pol IV; RNA directed DNA methylation; RNAi; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

DEFECTIVE IN RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION PROTEIN; DEFECTIVE IN RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION PROTEIN 1; DEFECTIVE IN RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION PROTEIN 2; DEFECTIVE IN RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION PROTEIN 3; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; PROTEIN SWI; PROTEIN SWI2; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRESS; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; HISTONES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34249809690     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2007.03.001     Document Type: Review

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