Arabidopsis Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 binding sites contain putative GAGA factor binding motifs within coding regions of genes

Deng, Weiwei; Buzas, Diana M.; Ying, Hua; Robertson, Masumi; Taylor, Jennifer; Peacock, W James; Dennis , Elizabeth S; Helliwell, Christopher  Andrew

Arabidopsis Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 binding sites contain putative GAGA factor binding motifs within coding regions of genes

Date

2013

Authors

Deng, Weiwei

Buzas, Diana M.

Ying, Hua

Robertson, Masumi

Taylor, Jennifer

Peacock, W James

Dennis , Elizabeth S

Helliwell, Christopher Andrew

Publisher

BioMed Central

Abstract

Background: Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) is an essential regulator of gene expression that maintains genes in a repressed state by marking chromatin with trimethylated Histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3). In Arabidopsis, loss of PRC2 function leads to