Distinct size distribution of endogenous siRNAs in maize: Evidence from deep sequencing in the mop1-1 mutant

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 14958-14963

  Nobuta, Kan ^a   Lu, Cheng ^a   Shrivastava, Roli ^a   Pillay, Manoj ^a   De Paoli, Emanuele ^a   Accerbi, Monica ^a   Arteaga Vazquez, Mario ^b   Sidorenko, Lyudmila ^b   Jeong, Dong Hoon ^a   Yen, Yang ^c   Green, Pamela J ^a   Chandler, Vicki L ^b   Meyers, Blake C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

miRNA; mop1; rdr2; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; RDR2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MAIZE; MOP1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ZEA MAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 54449085115     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808066105     Document Type: Article

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