Intergenic transcription by RNA polymerase II coordinates Pol IV and Pol V in siRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 2850-2860

  Zheng, Binglian ^a   Wang, Zhengming ^a,b   Li, Shengben ^a   Yu, Bin ^a,c   Liu, Jin Yuan ^b   Chen, Xuemei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Noncoding transcripts; RNA polymerase; SiRNA; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA POLYMERASE IV; DNA POLYMERASE V; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; RNA POLYMERASE II; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 72849124237     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1868009     Document Type: Article

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