Local DNA features affect RNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing and DNA methylation

Plant Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Fischer, Ute ^b   Kuhlmann, Markus ^b   Pecinka, Ales ^a,b   Schmidt, Renate ^b,c   Mette, Michael F ^b  

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

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

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Heterochromatin; Position effect; Repetitive sequences; Transcriptional gene silencing; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; POSITION EFFECTS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; TRANSGENE EXPRESSION;

CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METHYLATION; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA SEQUENCES;

BACTERIAL DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NOPALINE DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 37249083971     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03311.x     Document Type: Article

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