Arabidopsis histone deacetylase 6: A green link to RNA silencing

Oncogene

Volumn 26, Issue 37, 2007, Pages 5477-5488

  Aufsatz, W ^a   Stoiber, T ^a   Rakic, B ^a   Naumann, K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cytosine methylation; Epigenetics; Histone deacetylation; RNA silencing; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 5; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 6; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 8; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CATALYSIS; CHROMATIN; ENZYME MECHANISM; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; YEAST;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 34547869253     PISSN: 09509232     EISSN: 14765594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210615     Document Type: Review

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