Antisilencing role of the RNA-directed DNA methylation pathway and a histone acetyltransferase in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 11425-11430

  Li, Xiaojie ^a   Qian, Weiqiang ^b   Zhao, Yusheng ^a   Wang, Chunlei ^a   Shen, Jie ^a   Zhu, Jian Kang ^b,c   Gong, Zhizhong ^a,d  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Epigenetic; Gene silencing; Histone modification; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DNA POLYMERASE NRPD1; ENZYME; ENZYME ROS1; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE ROS4; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K18; HISTONE H3K23; HISTONE H3K4; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

35S NPTII TRANSGENE; ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; HISTONE ACETYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SEEDLING; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONES; KANAMYCIN; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84863980221     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208557109     Document Type: Article

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