A structural-maintenance-of-chromosomes hinge domain-containing protein is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 670-675

  Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Bucher, Etienne ^a,d   Daxinger, Lucia ^a   Huettel, Bruno ^a   Böhmdorfer, Gudrun ^a   Gregor, Wolfgang ^b   Kreil, David P ^c   Matzke, Marjori ^a   Matzke, Antonius J M ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN DRD1; PROTEIN POL IVB; PROTEIN SMC; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DMS1 GENE; DMS2 GENE; DMS3 GENE; DMS5 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MERISTEM; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 42649089072     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.119     Document Type: Article

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