RNA-directed DNA methylation requires an AGO4-interacting member of the SPT5 elongation factor family

EMBO Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 649-654

  Bies Etheve, Natacha ^a   Pontier, Dominique ^a   Lahmy, Sylvie ^a   Picart, Claire ^a   Vega, Danielle ^a   Cooke, Richard ^a   Lagrange, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 4 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE ELONGATION FACTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SUPPRESSOR OF TY INSERTION 5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

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EID: 67349099134     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.31     Document Type: Article

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