Transitivity in Arabidopsis can be primed, requires the redundant action of the antiviral Dicer-like 4 and Dicer-like 2, and is compromised by viral-encoded suppressor proteins

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1268-1278

  Moissiard, Guillaume ^a   Parizotto, Eneida Abreu ^a   Himber, Christophe ^a   Voinnet, Olivier ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Dicer; RNA dependent RNA polymerase; siRNA; Transitivity; Viral suppressors

Indexed keywords

DICER; DICER LIKE 2 PROTEIN; DICER LIKE 4 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA CLEAVAGE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEREDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSGENE; VIRUS GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; PLANT VIRUSES; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; VIRAL REGULATORY PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI;

EID: 34447498668     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.541307     Document Type: Article

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