The SAND domain protein ULTRAPETALA1 acts as a trithorax group factor to regulate cell fate in plants

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2723-2728

  Carles, Cristel C ^a,b   Fletcher, Jennifer C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics; Gene activation; Polycomb group; Stem cell; Trithorax group

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS AGAMOUS PROTEIN; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN 1; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; DEFORMED EPIDERMAL AUTOREGULATORY FACTOR 1; HISTONE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; SP 100 NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FLORAL WHORL; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; HOMEOBOX; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REGULATOR GENE; STEM CELL;

EID: 72549107933     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1812609     Document Type: Article

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