Polycomb-mediated gene silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 841-850

  Kim, Dong Hwan ^a   Sung, Sibum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin looping; Epigenetics; Gene silencing; Polycomb; Trithorax

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; PRC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRC2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84924026162     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: 02191032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2014.0249     Document Type: Review

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