Physical clustering of FLC alleles during polycomb-mediated epigenetic silencing in vernalization

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1845-1850

  Rosa, Stefanie ^a   De Lucia, Filomena ^a,e   Mylne, Joshua S ^a,b,f   Zhu, Danling ^a   Ohmido, Nobuko ^c   Pendle, Ali ^a   Kato, Naohiro ^d   Shaw, Peter ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epigenetic; Flc; Nuclear organization; Polycomb; Vernalization

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COLD; EPIGENETICS; FLC ALLELE; GENE SILENCING; MONITOR; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERNALIZATION;

EPIGENETIC; FLC; NUCLEAR ORGANIZATION; POLYCOMB; VERNALIZATION;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; COLD TEMPERATURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84883620111     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.221713.113     Document Type: Article

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