Plant-specific multisubunit RNA polymerase in gene silencing

Epigenetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-8

  Lahmy, Sylvie ^a   Bies Etheve, Natacha ^a   Lagrange, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Argonaute; DNA methylation; RNA polymerase; RNA silencing

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 77449116618     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.5.1.10435     Document Type: Review

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