Genetic rearrangements can modify chromatin features at epialleles

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Foerster, Andrea M ^a   Dinh, Huy Q ^a,b   Sedman, Laura ^a   Wohlrab, Bonnie ^a   Scheid, Ortrun Mittelsten ^a  

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

^b MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HPT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; T DNA; T-DNA; TRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 80055094613     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002331     Document Type: Article

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