Insensitivity of chloroplast gene expression to DNA methylation

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 282, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-24

  Ahlert, Daniela ^a   Stegemann, Sandra ^b   Kahlau, Sabine ^b   Ruf, Stephanie ^b   Bock, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenine methylation; Chloroplast; Cytosine methylation; Dam methylation; Nicotiana tabacum; Plastid transformation

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67649217836     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-009-0440-z     Document Type: Article

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