The action of ARGONAUTE1 in the miRNA pathway and its regulation by the miRNA pathway are crucial for plant development

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1187-1197

  Vaucheret, Hervé ^a,b   Vazquez, Franck ^a,c   Crété, Patrice ^c,e   Bartel, David P ^b,d  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

AGO1; MiRNA; Negative feedback regulation; Posttranscriptional gene silencing; RNAi

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AGO1; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 2442650370     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1201404     Document Type: Article

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