Histone H3K9 and H3K27 methylation regulates fungal alkaloid biosynthesis in a fungal endophyte-plant symbiosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 413-434

  Chujo, Tetsuya ^a   Scott, Barry ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; CLRD PROTEIN; EZHB PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 27; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 9; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL DNA; HISTONE; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAS GENE; ENDOPHYTE; EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE FESTUCAE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; LTM GENE; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LOLIUM; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALKALOIDS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOPHYTES; EPICHLOE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONES; LOLIUM; LYSINE; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84897933810     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12567     Document Type: Article

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