Sequencing of RDR6-dependent double-stranded RNAs reveals novel features of plant siRNA biogenesis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 6241-6254

  Rajeswaran, Rajendran ^a   Aregger, Michael ^a   Zvereva, Anna S ^a   Borah, Basanta K ^a   Gubaeva, Ekaterina G ^a   Pooggin, Mikhail M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DICER; DICER LIKE 4; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 173; RNA DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE 6; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANS ACTING SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TAS1A GENE; TAS1B GENE; TAS1C GENE; TAS2 GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYADENYLATION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84864455779     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks242     Document Type: Article

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