Transcription-dependence of histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation at the Arabidopsis polycomb target gene FLC

Plant Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 872-881

  Buzas, Diana Mihaela ^a,b   Robertson, Masumi ^a   Finnegan, E Jean ^a   Helliwell, Chris A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; FLC; H3K27me3; histones; polycomb proteins; transcription

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; FLC; H3K27ME3; HISTONES; POLYCOMB;

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HISTONE; LYSINE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, PLANT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HISTONES; LYSINE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79953004631     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04471.x     Document Type: Article

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