ARGONAUTE PIWI domain and microRNA duplex structure regulate small RNA sorting in Arabidopsis

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaoming ^a,b   Niu, Dong Dong ^a,c   Carbonell, Alberto ^d   Wang, Airong ^a,e   Lee, Angel ^a   Tun, Vinnary ^a   Wang, Zonghua ^e   Carrington, James C ^d   Chang, Chia En A ^a   Jin, Hailing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE; AGO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PROTEIN BINDING;

DICOTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; STABLE EXPRESSION; TANDEM REPEAT; METABOLISM; RNA TRANSPORT;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA TRANSPORT;

EID: 84922319019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6468     Document Type: Article

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