Complementarity to an miRNA seed region is sufficient to induce moderate repression of a target transcript in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1045-1056

  Yamasaki, Tomohito ^a   Voshall, Adam ^b   Kim, Eun Jeong ^b   Moriyama, Etsuko ^b   Cerutti, Heriberto ^b   Ohama, Takeshi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; luciferase assay; microRNA; RNA silencing; seed sequence; transformation

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; LUCIFERASE ASSAYS; MICRORNAS; RNA SILENCING; TRANSFORMATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

RNA;

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SILENCING; SEED SEQUENCE; TRANSFORMATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MICRORNA; RNA SILENCING; SEED SEQUENCE; TRANSFORMATION;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84890252624     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12354     Document Type: Article

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