Involvement of Elongin C in the spread of repressive histone modifications

Plant Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-61

  Yamasaki, Tomohito ^a,b   Ohama, Takeshi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

histone modification; methyl CpG; random insertional mutagenesis; RNA interference; transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

HISTONE MODIFICATION; INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; METHYL-CPG; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL SILENCING;

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

PROTEINS;

ELONGIN; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLAND; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLANDS; HISTONES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 78650595968     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04400.x     Document Type: Article

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