The highly similar Arabidopsis homologs of trithorax ATX1 and ATX2 encode proteins with divergent biochemical functions

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 568-579

  Saleh, Abdelaty ^a,b   Alvarez Venegas, Raul ^a,c   Yilmaz, Mehtap ^a,d   Oahn Le, ^a   Hou, Guichuan ^a,e   Sadder, Monther ^a,f   Al Abdallat, Ayed ^a,f   Xia, Yuannan ^g   Lu, Guoqinq ^h   Ladunga, Istvan ^g   Avramovaa, Zoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATX1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HISTONE; ISOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NUCLEOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, DUPLICATE; HISTONES; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 48249155078     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.056614     Document Type: Article

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