Redundant and specific roles of the ARGONAUTE proteins AGO1 and ZLL in development and small RNA-directed gene silencing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Mallory, Allison C ^a   Hinze, Annika ^b   Tucker, Matthew R ^b,c   Bouché, Nicolas ^a   Gasciolli, Virginie ^a   Elmayan, Taline ^a   Lauressergues, Dominique ^a,d   Jauvion, Vincent ^a   Vaucheret, Hervé ^a   Laux, Thomas ^b  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN ZLL; MICRORNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AGO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ZLL PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AGO1 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; MID DOMAIN; NONHUMAN; PAZ DOMAIN; PIWI DOMAIN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; SEEDLING; TRANSGENE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHIMERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; MERISTEM; MICRORNAS; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 70349673326     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000646     Document Type: Article

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