Distinct and Cooperative Activities of HESO1 and URT1 Nucleotidyl Transferases in MicroRNA Turnover in Arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Tu, Bin ^a,b   Liu, Li ^a,c   Xu, Chi ^c   Zhai, Jixian ^d   Li, Shengben ^a   Lopez, Miguel A ^a   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^a   Yu, Yu ^a   Ramachandran, Vanitharani ^a,f   Ren, Guodong ^e,g   Yu, Bin ^e   Li, Shigui ^b   Meyers, Blake C ^d   Mo, Beixin ^c   Chen, Xuemei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^g FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; HESO1 PROTEIN; HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSE; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URT1 PROTEIN; AGO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HESO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MIRN171 MICRORNA, ARABIDOPSIS; RNA POLYMERASE; URIDINE; URT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA DEGRADATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA STABILITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MICRORNAS; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; URIDINE;

EID: 84930348374     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005119     Document Type: Article

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