RNA-mediated trans-communication can establish paramutation at the b1 locus in maize

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12986-12991

  Arteaga Vazquez, Mario ^a   Sidorenko, Lyudmila ^a   Rabanal, Fernando A ^a,b   Shrivistava, Roli ^c   Nobuta, Kan ^c   Green, Pamela J ^c   Meyers, Blake C ^c   Chandler, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic; Information; Interchromosomal; Trans generational; Transfer

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MICRORNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; MAIZE; MOP1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PARAMUTATION; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENETIC LOCI; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77955601269     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007972107     Document Type: Article

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