A gene loop containing the floral repressor FLC is disrupted in the early phase of vernalization

EMBO Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 140-148

  Crevillén, Pedro ^a,b   Sonmez, Cagla ^a   Wu, Zhe ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

chromosome conformation capture; FLC; gene loop; Polycomb; vernalization

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION; VERNALIZATION;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; ACCLIMATIZATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; COLD TEMPERATURE; DOWN-REGULATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, PLANT; SEEDLING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; UP-REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84872855164     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.324     Document Type: Article

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