Ancient trans-Acting siRNAs Confer Robustness and Sensitivity onto the Auxin Response

Developmental Cell

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 276-289

  Plavskin, Yevgeniy ^a,f   Nagashima, Akitomo ^b,c   Perroud, Pierre François ^d,g   Hasebe, Mitsuyasu ^b,c   Quatrano, Ralph S ^d   Atwal, Gurinder S ^a   Timmermans, Marja C P ^a,e  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auxin; Evolution; Gene regulatory network; Physcomitrella; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

ARF PROTEIN; AUXIN; ESTRADIOL; MICRORNA; NITROGEN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL FATE; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOTYPE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PHENOTYPE; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PLANT EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MICRORNAS; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84958598015     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.01.010     Document Type: Article

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