An RNA polymerase II-and AGO4-associated protein acts in RNA-directed DNA methylation

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7294, 2010, Pages 106-109

  Gao, Zhihuan ^a   Liu, Hai Liang ^a,b   Daxinger, Lucia ^c,i   Pontes, Olga ^d   He, Xinjian ^a,e   Qian, Weiqiang ^a   Lin, Huixin ^a   Xie, Mingtang ^a   Lorkovic, Zdravko J ^f   Zhang, Shoudong ^a,e   Miki, Daisuke ^a   Zhan, Xiangqiang ^a,e   Pontier, Dominique ^g   Lagrange, Thierry ^g   Jin, Hailing ^a   Matzke, Antonius J M ^c   Matzke, Marjori ^c   Pikaard, Craig S ^h   Zhu, Jian Kang ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ENZYME; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC MARKER; HERB; METHYLATION; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA PROCESSING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77952090735     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09025     Document Type: Article

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