Three SRA-domain methylcytosine-binding proteins cooperate to maintain global CpG methylation and epigenetic silencing in arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Woo, Hye Ryun ^a   Dittmer, Travis A ^a   Richards, Eric J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; SET AND RING ASSOCIATED DOMAIN METHYLCYTOSINE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CYTIDYLYL 3' 5' GUANOSINE; CYTIDYLYL-3'-5'-GUANOSINE; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FWA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MET1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 5S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIM1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VIM2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VIM3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIM1 GENE; VIM2 GENE; VIM3 GENE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 50849106398     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000156     Document Type: Article

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