SiRNA-mediated chromatin maintenance and its function in Arabidopsis thaliana

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1809, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 444-451

  Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Habu, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Histone modification; Non CG methylation; RNA directed DNA methylation; SiRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOTIC STRESS; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79961210876     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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