Evidence for antisense transcription associated with microRNA target mRNAs in arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Luo, Qing Jun ^a   Samanta, Manoj P ^b   Köksal, Fatih ^a   Janda, Jaroslav ^c   Galbraith, David W ^c   Richardson, Casey R ^d   Ou Yang, Fangqian ^a   Rock, Christopher D ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Systemix Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROBE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 66349135632     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000457     Document Type: Article

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