Antisense-mediated FLC transcriptional repression requires the P-TEFb transcription elongation factor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7468-7473

  Wang, Zhi Wei ^a,b   Wu, Zhe ^a   Raitskin, Oleg ^a   Sun, Qianwen ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FLORAL REPRESSOR FLOWERING LOCUS; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSGENE;

AUTONOMOUS PATHWAY; CHROMATIN SILENCING; LNCRNA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84901008928     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406635111     Document Type: Article

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