MicroRNA biogenesis and turnover in plants

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 183-194

  Rogers, K ^a   Chen, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EXORIBONUCLEASE; KARYOPHERIN BETA; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; CAP BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN JAGGED 1; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SUO PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; GENE SILENCING; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEADY STATE; TURNOVER TIME; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA BINDING DOMAIN; METHYLATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84881501607     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2013.77.014530     Document Type: Article

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