Multiple distinct small RNAs originate from the same microRNA precursors

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Weixiong ^a,b   Gao, Shang ^c   Zhou, Xuefeng ^a   Xia, Jing ^a   Chellappan, Padmanabhan ^c   Zhou, Xiang ^a   Zhang, Xiaoming ^c   Jin, Hailing ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE IV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ASPEN; BARREL MEDIC; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADOME; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HOMO SAPIENS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MUS MUSCULUS; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 78650516640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-8-r81     Document Type: Article

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