RNA polymerase v targets transcriptional silencing components to promoters of protein-coding genes

Plant Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-189

  Zheng, Qi ^a   Rowley, M Jordan ^b   Böhmdorfer, Gudrun ^b   Sandhu, Davinder ^a   Gregory, Brian D ^a   Wierzbicki, Andrzej T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Argonaute; Gene silencing; NcRNA; Pol V; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARGONAUTE; BIOTIC STRESS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE PROMOTER; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC REGIONS; HETEROCHROMATIN FORMATION; NCRNA; NON-CODING RNAS; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; REGULATORY UNITS; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL SILENCING; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA METHYLATIONS; SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS;

BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RNA; STRESSES; ALKYLATION; BINS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; METHYLATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

AGO4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA POLYMERASE V, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PROMOTER REGION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENZYME ASSAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84872485907     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12034     Document Type: Article

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