The De novo cytosine methyltransferase DRM2 requires intact UBA domains and a catalytically mutated paralog DRM3 during RNA-directed DNA methylation in arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Henderson, Ian R ^a,b   Deleris, Angelique ^a   Wong, William ^a   Zhong, Xuehua ^a   Chin, Hang Gyeong ^c   Horwitz, Gregory A ^a   Kelly, Krystyna A ^b   Pradhan, Sriharsa ^c   Jacobsen, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3; DOMAINS REARRANGED METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; DOMAINS REARRANGED METHYLTRANSFERASE 3; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRM2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DRM3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ISOENZYME; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CLADISTICS; DNA METHYLATION; FLOWERING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOCATALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOCATALYSIS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-CYTOSINE METHYLASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 78449231939     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001182     Document Type: Article

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