Developmental silencing of the AtTERT gene is associated with increased H3K27me3 loading and maintenance of its euchromatic environment

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4233-4241

  Ogrocká, Anna ^a   Sýkorová, Eva ^a,b   Fajkus, Jiří ^a   Fojtová, Miloslava ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Developmental regulation; DNA methylation; Histone modifications; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HISTONE; TELOMERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; EUCHROMATIN; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; UPREGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EUCHROMATIN; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; METHYLATION; TELOMERASE; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84866682732     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers107     Document Type: Article

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