Gene expression and stress response mediated by the epigenetic regulation of a transposable element small RNA

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  McCue, Andrea D ^a   Nuthikattu, Saivageethi ^a   Reeder, Sarah H ^a   Slotkin, R Keith ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; AGO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DDM1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UPBEAT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; STRESS; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; UPB1B GENE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POLLEN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859199684     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002474     Document Type: Article

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