A Pre-mRNA-Splicing Factor Is Required for RNA-Directed DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Chao Feng ^a,b   Miki, Daisuke ^a   Tang, Kai ^c   Zhou, Hao Ran ^d   Zheng, Zhimin ^a   Chen, Wei ^c   Ma, Ze Yang ^d   Yang, Lan ^a   Zhang, Heng ^a   Liu, Renyi ^e   He, Xin Jian ^d   Zhu, Jian Kang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION 16; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; GAMETE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RDM16 GENE; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84884697862     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003779     Document Type: Article

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