Heterochromatic siRNAs and DDM1 independently silence aberrant 5S rDNA transcripts in Arabidopsis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Blevins, Todd ^a,b   Pontes, Olga ^b   Pikaard, Craig S ^b   Meins Jr , Frederick ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER LIKE 3 PROTEIN; DNA 5S; GENE PRODUCT; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE 2; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE IV; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DDM1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 5S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CROSS BREEDING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67649958263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005932     Document Type: Article

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