Genome-wide analysis of plant nat-siRNAs reveals insights into their distribution, biogenesis and function

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaoming ^a   Xia, Jing ^b   Lii, Yifan E ^a   Barrera Figueroa, Blanca E ^a,c   Zhou, Xuefeng ^b   Gao, Shang ^a   Lu, Lu ^a,d   Niu, Dongdong ^a,e   Chen, Zheng ^b   Leung, Christy ^a   Wong, Timothy ^a   Zhang, Huiming ^f   Guo, Jianhua ^a,e   Li, Yi ^d   Liu, Renyi ^a   Liang, Wanqi ^g   Zhu, Jian Kang ^f   Zhang, Weixiong ^b,h   Jin, Hailing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAPALOAPAN   (Mexico)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DICER; DICER LIKE 1 PROTEIN; DICER LIKE 3 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NATURAL ANTISENS TRANSCRIPT SMALL INTERFERING RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE IV; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DCL1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DCL3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PLANT RNA; RDR2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE IV, ARABIDOPSIS;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOTIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INTRON; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RICE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; WILD TYPE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOME, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; ORYZA SATIVA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84862831103     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-3-r20     Document Type: Article

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