RNA polymerase v transcription guides ARGONAUTE4 to chromatin

Nature Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 630-634

  Wierzbicki, Andrzej T ^a   Ream, Thomas S ^a   Haag, Jeremy R ^a   Pikaard, Craig S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 4 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; HINGE DOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE V; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 67349112845     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.365     Document Type: Article

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