PolV(PolIVb) function in RNA-directed DNA methylation requires the conserved active site and an additional plant-specific subunit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 941-946

  Lahmy, Sylvie ^a   Pontier, Dominique ^a   Cavel, Emilie ^a   Vega, Danielle ^a   El Shami, Mahmoud ^a,c   Kanno, Tatsuo ^b   Lagrange, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

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

^c Al Azhar University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; RNA polymerase; Silencing

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 58849120615     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810310106     Document Type: Article

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