Transcriptional silencing induced by Arabidopsis T-DNA mutants is associated with 35S promoter siRNAs and requires genes involved in siRNA-mediated chromatin silencing

Plant Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 699-704

  Mlotshwa, Sizolwenkosi ^a   Pruss, Gail J ^a   Gao, Zhihuan ^a,b   Mgutshini, Nomathamsanqa L ^a   Li, Junjie ^b   Chen, Xuemei ^b,c   Bowman, Lewis H ^a   Vance, Vicki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Life Technologies Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

35S promoter; DCL3; SALK line; siRNA; T DNA insertion mutant; transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

35S PROMOTER; DCL3; SALK LINE; SIRNA; T-DNA INSERTION MUTANT; TRANSCRIPTIONAL SILENCING;

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DCL3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RDR2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CAULIMOVIRUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 78449241334     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04358.x     Document Type: Article

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