Intercellular and systemic movement of RNA silencing signals

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3553-3563

  Melnyk, Charles W ^a   Molnar, Attila ^a   Baulcombe, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dicer; epigenetics; phloem; plasmodesmata; sRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MOTION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PHLOEM; PLASMODESMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICE; NEMATODA; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA; NEMATODA;

EID: 80052198750     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.274     Document Type: Review

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