Specific Tandem Repeats Are Sufficient for Paramutation-Induced Trans-Generational Silencing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Belele, Christiane L ^a   Sidorenko, Lyudmila ^a   Stam, Maike ^b   Bader, Rechien ^b   Arteaga Vazquez, Mario A ^a,c   Chandler, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAIZE; MOP1 GENE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMUTATION; PARAMUTATION1 GENE; PLANT GENE; POSITION EFFECT; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84887311291     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003773     Document Type: Article

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