Pol V Transcribes to Silence

被引:5
作者
Daxinger, Lucia [1 ]
Kanno, Tatsuo [1 ]
Matzke, Marjori [1 ]
机构
[1] Austrian Acad Sci, Gregor Mendel Inst Mol Plant Biol, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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10.1016/j.cell.2008.10.027
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
In most cases, the functions of long noncoding RNAs remain uncertain. Working in the model plant Arabidopsis, Wierzbicki et al. (2008) provide evidence that transcription of intergenic noncoding regions by RNA polymerase V promotes heterochromatin formation and silencing of nearby genes.
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页码:592 / 594
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