Arabidopsis MRG domain proteins bridge two histone modifications to elevate expression of flowering genes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 10960-10974

  Xu, Yifeng ^a   Gan, Eng Seng ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   Wee, Wan Yi ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^b   Ito, Toshiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; HAM1 PROTEIN; HAM2 PROTEIN; MRG1 PROTEIN; MRG2 PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; EUCHROMATIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HISTONE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LAZ2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; MRG1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MRG2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMODOMAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; UPREGULATION; ACETYLATION; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

ACETYLATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EUCHROMATIN; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84922245334     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku781     Document Type: Article

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