Widespread role for the flowering-time regulators FCA and FPA in RNA-mediated chromatin silencing

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5847, 2007, Pages 109-112

  Bäurle, Isabel ^a   Smith, Lisa ^b,c   Baulcombe, David C ^b,d   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FCA; PROTEIN FPA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FLOWERING; GENOME; GROWTH REGULATOR; HERB; METHYLATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLOWERING; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RETROELEMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 35148870536     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146565     Document Type: Article

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31. We thank our colleagues for comments and advice, and F. Liu for seed. Supported by a UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant to the John Innes Centre; UK Natural Environment Research Council grant NE/C507629/1 (C.D.); Gatsby Charitable Foundation and EU training network "Silencing in different organisms," EC contract HPRN-CT-2002-00257 (D.C.B.); and a European Molecular Biology Organization long-term postdoctoral fellowship (I.B.).