Deep sequencing of small RNAs specifically associated with Arabidopsis AGO1 and AGO4 uncovers new AGO functions

Plant Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 292-304

  Wang, Huan ^a,b,c   Zhang, Xiuren ^a,d   Liu, Jun ^a   Kiba, Takatoshi ^a,e   Woo, Jongchan ^a   Ojo, Tolulope ^a   Hafner, Markus ^a   Tuschl, Thomas ^a   Chua, Nam Hai ^a   Wang, Xiu Jie ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

AGO1; AGO4; microRNA; nat siRNA; post transcriptional gene silencing; trans acting siRNAs

Indexed keywords

AGO1; AGO4; MICRORNAS; NAT-SIRNA; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; TRANS-ACTING SIRNAS;

COMPLEXATION; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

RNA;

AGO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; AGO4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE LIBRARY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79960226204     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04594.x     Document Type: Article

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