Multimegabase Silencing in Nucleolar Dominance Involves siRNA-Directed DNA Methylation and Specific Methylcytosine-Binding Proteins

Molecular Cell

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 673-684

  Preuss, Sasha B ^a   Costa Nunes, Pedro ^a,e   Tucker, Sarah ^a   Pontes, Olga ^a   Lawrence, Richard J ^a   Mosher, Rebecca ^b,c   Kasschau, Kristin D ^d   Carrington, James C ^d   Baulcombe, David C ^b,c   Viegas, Wanda ^e   Pikaard, Craig S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

DNA; PROTEINS; RNA

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DICER; DICER LIKE 3; DRM2 PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING DOMAIN PROTEIN 10; METHYL CPG BINDING DOMAIN PROTEIN 6; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE 2; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CYTOSINE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 56849085532     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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