ATX1-Generated H3K4me3 Is Required for Efficient Elongation of Transcription, Not Initiation, at ATX1-Regulated Genes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Ding, Yong ^a,b   Ndamukong, Ivan ^b,c   Xu, Zaoshi ^b,e   Lapko, Hanna ^b   Fromm, Michael ^d   Avramova, Zoya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e Anhui Forestry High Tech Development Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS TRITHORAX 1 GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE METHYLATION; LTP7 GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT GENE; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WRKY70 GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA POLYMERASE II; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84872027256     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003111     Document Type: Article

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