Processing of plant microRNA precursors

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-45

  Bologna, Nicoĺs G ^a   Schapire, Arnaldo L ^b   Palatnik, Javier F ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Rosario   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Animals; Arabidopsis thaliana; Biogenesis; MicroRNA; Plants; Precursor; Processing; Structural determinants

Indexed keywords

EXPORTIN 5; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84872788887     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/els050     Document Type: Article

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