RNA-directed DNA methylation and plant development require an IWR1-type transcription factor

EMBO Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-71

  Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Bucher, Etienne ^a,f   Daxinger, Lucia ^a,g   Huettel, Bruno ^b   Kreil, David P ^a,b   Breinig, Frank ^a,c   Lind, Marc ^a,c   Schmitt, Manfred J ^a,c   Simon, Stacey A ^a,d   Gurazada, Sai Guna Ranjan ^a,d   Meyers, Blake C ^a,d   Lorkovic, Zdravko J ^a,e   Matzke, Antonius J M ^a   Matzke, Marjori ^a  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

IWR1; Pol IV; Pol V; RNA polymerase; RNA directed DNA methylation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DMS4 PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE IV; RNA POLYMERASE V; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IWR1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 74149084294     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.246     Document Type: Article

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