Regulation of pol I-transcribed 45S rDNA and pol III-transcribed 5S rDNA in arabidopsis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 267-276

  Layat, Elodie ^a   Sáez Vásquez, Julio ^b   Tourmente, Sylvette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes UMR 5096 CNRS Université de Perpignan Via Domitia   (France)

Author keywords

45S ribosomal DNA; 5S ribosomal DNA; Arabidopsis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; PLANT RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 5S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 45S;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REVIEW; RNA GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, RRNA; RNA, PLANT; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857224306     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr177     Document Type: Review

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