A pathway for the biogenesis of trans-acting siRNAs in Arabidopsis

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2164-2175

  Yoshikawa, Manabu ^a   Peragine, Angela ^a   Mee, Yeon Park ^a   Poethig, R Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

miRNA; PTGS; RNAi; Trans acting siRNAs

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; PROTEIN DCL4; PROTEIN RDR6; PROTEIN SGS3; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE TARGETING; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 24944491201     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1352605     Document Type: Article

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