Methylation as a crucial step in plant microRNA biogenesis

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5711, 2005, Pages 932-935

  Yu, Bin ^a   Yang, Zhiyong ^a   Li, Junjie ^a,b   Minakhina, Svetlana ^a   Yang, Maocheng ^a   Padgett, Richard W ^a   Steward, Ruth ^a   Chen, Xuemei ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RNA; STABILITY;

BIOGENESIS; MAMMALIAN CELLS; METHYLATION; RIBOSE;

CELLS;

METHYL GROUP; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RIBOSE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

METHYLATION;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 13644256193     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107130     Document Type: Article

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