Plant siRNAs from introns mediate DNA methylation of host genes

RNA

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1012-1024

  Chen, Dijun ^a,b   Meng, Yijun ^a   Yuan, Chunhui ^a   Bai, Lin ^a   Huang, Donglin ^a   Lv, Shaolei ^a   Wu, Ping ^a   Chen, Ling Ling ^b   Chen, Ming ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Intron; Mirtron; Plant; Sirtron; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; MICRORNA 21; PLANT RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; RNA STRUCTURE;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORYZA SATIVA; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 79956227224     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2589011     Document Type: Article

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