Most microRNAs in the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are produced by Dicer-like 3-mediated cleavage of introns and untranslated regions of coding RNAs

Genome Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 519-529

  Valli, Adrian A ^a   Santos, Bruno A C M ^a   Hnatova, Silvia ^a   Bassett, Andrew R ^a,b   Molnar, Attila ^a,c   Chung, Betty Y ^a   Baulcombe, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; DICER LIKE 3; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; INTRON; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; TRANSPOSON; UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 84964005584     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.199703.115     Document Type: Article

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