DNA Topoisomerase 1α Promotes Transcriptional Silencing of Transposable Elements through DNA Methylation and Histone Lysine 9 Dimethylation in Arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Dinh, Thanh Theresa ^a,g   Gao, Lei ^a   Liu, Xigang ^a,h   Li, Dongming ^a,b   Li, Shengben ^a   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^a   O'Leary, Michael ^a   Le, Brandon ^a   Schmitz, Robert J ^c   Manavella, Pablo ^d   Li, Shaofang ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^d   Pontes, Olga ^e,h   Ecker, Joseph R ^c,f   Chen, Xuemei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 4 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CAMPTOTHECIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE 1ALPHA; HISTONE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; LUCIFERASE; LYSINE; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE IV; RNA POLYMERASE V; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE 1ALPHA GENE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPIGENETICS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONE METHYLATION; LUCL GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; LYSINE; MUTATION; RNA; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905474685     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004446     Document Type: Article

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