Active DNA demethylation in plants and animals

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 161-173

  Zhang, H ^a   Zhu, J K ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; DEMETHYLATION; DERIVATIZATION; EPIGENETICS; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE PRUNING; ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PLANT GENOME;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; PLANTS;

EID: 84881520152     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2012.77.014936     Document Type: Article

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