Alternative splicing of the rice OsMET1 genes encoding maintenance DNA methyltransferase

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 165, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1774-1782

  Yamauchi, Takaki ^a,b   Moritoh, Satoru ^a   Johzuka Hisatomi, Yasuyo ^a   Ono, Akemi ^a   Terada, Rie ^a   Nakamura, Ikuo ^b   Iida, Shigeru ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; DNA methyltransferase MET1; Gene regulation; Rice (Oryza sativa); Untranslated region (UTR)

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; METHYLTRANSFERASES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 53849125431     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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