Dissecting Arabidopsis thaliana DICER function in small RNA processing, gene silencing and DNA methylation patterning

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 721-725

  Henderson, Ian R ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^a   Lu, Cheng ^b   Johnson, Lianna ^a   Meyers, Blake C ^b   Green, Pamela J ^b   Jacobsen, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DICER LIKE PROTEIN 1; DICER LIKE PROTEIN 2; DICER LIKE PROTEIN 3; DICER LIKE PROTEIN 4; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PLANT DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DCL1 GENE; DCL2 GENE; DCL3 GENE; DCL4 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 33745279055     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1804     Document Type: Article

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