DNA Methylation Mediated Control of Gene Expression Is Critical for Development of Crown Gall Tumors

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Gohlke, Jochen ^a   Scholz, Claus Juergen ^b   Kneitz, Susanne ^c   Weber, Dana ^a   Fuchs, Joerg ^d   Hedrich, Rainer ^a   Deeken, Rosalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN GALL; CROWN GALL TUMOR; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DROUGHT STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE IAAH; ONCOGENE IAAM; ONCOGENE IPT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STEM; PLANT TISSUE; PLANT TUMOR; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ABSCISIC ACID; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; ONCOGENES; PLANT TUMORS;

EID: 84874782710     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003267     Document Type: Article

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