The Arabidopsis DCP2 gene is required for proper mRNA turnover and prevents transgene silencing in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 368-377

  Thran, Moritz ^a   Link, Katrin ^a   Sonnewald, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

aberrant mRNA; Arabidopsis; decapping; ITS1; small RNAs; transgene silencing

Indexed keywords

ABERRANT MRNA; ARABIDOPSIS; DECAPPING; ITS1; SMALL RNA; TRANSGENE SILENCING;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

GENES;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CAPPED RNA; DCP2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RDR6 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA CAPS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA REPLICASE; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; POTYVIRUS;

EID: 84868194698     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05066.x     Document Type: Article

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