MORC proteins and epigenetic regulation

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1561-1565

  Lorković, Zdravko J ^a  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; DNA methylation; GHKL ATPase; H3K27 monomethylation (H3K27me); Histone modification; MORC; RNA directed DNA methylation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING;

EID: 84871235572     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.22460     Document Type: Article

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