Evolutionary history of plant multisubunit RNA polymerases IV and V: Subunit origins via genome-wide and segmental gene duplications, retrotransposition, and lineage-specific subfunctionalization

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 285-297

  Tucker, S L ^a   Reece, J ^a   Ream, T S ^a,c   Pikaard, C S ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE IV; RNA POLYMERASE V; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA POLYMERASE II SUBUNIT NRPB4; RNA POLYMERASE II SUBUNIT NRPB5; RNA POLYMERASE II SUBUNIT NRPB7; RNA POLYMERASE II SUBUNIT NRPD5; RNA POLYMERASE IV SUBUNIT NRPB5; RNA POLYMERASE IV SUBUNIT NRPD4; RNA POLYMERASE IV SUBUNIT NRPD5; RNA POLYMERASE IV SUBUNIT NRPD7; RNA POLYMERASE IV SUBUNIT NRPE4; RNA POLYMERASE V SUBUNIT NRPD4; RNA POLYMERASE V SUBUNIT NRPE4; RNA POLYMERASE V SUBUNIT NRPE5; RNA POLYMERASE V SUBUNIT NRPE7;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL VIABILITY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MONOCOT; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENE; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATIONS, GENOMIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 79960725352     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.037     Document Type: Article

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