Function of the DEMETER DNA glycosylase in the Arabidopsis thaliana male gametophyte

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

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8042-8047

  Schoft, Vera K ^a   Chumak, Nina ^a   Choi, Yeonhee ^b   Hannon, Mike ^c   Garcia Aguilar, Marcelina ^a   Machlicova, Adriana ^a   Slusarz, Lucyna ^a   Mosiolek, Magdalena ^a   Park, Jin Sup ^b   Park, Guen Tae ^b   Fischer, Robert L ^c   Tamaru, Hisashi ^a  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA demethylation; DNA methylation; Gene silencing; Plant reproduction; Transposon silencing

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; DEMETER PROTEIN; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; FWA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DEMETHYLATION; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GAMETOPHYTE; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENOME; POLLEN GERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GERMINATION; MUTATION; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; OVULE; POLLEN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 79956347772     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105117108     Document Type: Article

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