ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 and elongator, a histone acetyltransferase complex, mediate the establishment of polarity in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1259-1273

  Kojima, Shoko ^a   Iwasaki, Mayumi ^a,d   Takahashi, Hiro ^a   Imai, Tomoya ^a   Matsumura, Yoko ^a,b   Fleury, Delphine ^c,e   Van Lijsebettens, Mieke ^c   MacHida, Yasunori ^b   MacHida, Chiyoko ^a  

^a CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 (AS2); ELONGATA3 (ELO3); Elongator; Histone acetyltransferase; Leaf polarity

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; AS2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ELO3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXAMIC ACID; RDR6 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRICHOSTATIN A; ZIPPY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PLANT LEAVES; RNA REPLICASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 80051778814     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr083     Document Type: Article

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