The putative PRC1 RING-finger protein AtRING1A regulates flowering through repressing MADS AFFECTING FLOWERING genes in Arabidopsis

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1303-1312

  Shen, Lisha ^a   Thong, Zhonghui ^a   Gong, Ximing ^a   Shen, Qing ^a   Gan, Yinbo ^b   Yu, Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flowering time; Histone modification; Polycomb repressive complex

Indexed keywords

ATRING1A PROTEIN; BMI1 PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; MAF4 GENE; MAF5 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

FLOWERING TIME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RING FINGER DOMAINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84896817019     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.104513     Document Type: Article

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