A novel hypoxic stress-responsive long non-coding RNA transcribed by RNA polymerase III in Arabidopsis

RNA Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 302-313

  Wu, Juan ^a   Okada, Toshihiro ^a   Fukushima, Toru ^a   Tsudzuki, Takahiko ^c   Sugiura, Masahiro ^a,b   Yukawa, Yasushi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Hypoxic stress; In vitro system; Long non coding RNA; Pol III; Upstream sequence element

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; PLANT RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRASSICACEAE; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84860723671     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.19101     Document Type: Article

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