RNA-directed DNA methylation requires stepwise binding of silencing factors to long non-coding RNA

Plant Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-191

  Böhmdorfer, Gudrun ^a   Rowley, M Jordan ^a   Kuciński, Jan ^a   Zhu, Yongyou ^a,b   Amies, Ivan ^a   Wierzbicki, Andrzej T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Argonaute; DNA methyltransferase; INVOLVED IN DE NOVO2; non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; CHROMOSOMES; CODES (SYMBOLS); DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARGONAUTE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES; INVOLVED IN DE NOVO2; NON-CODING RNAS;

RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84904042520     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12563     Document Type: Article

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