Gating of miRNA movement at defined cell-cell interfaces governs their impact as positional signals

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Skopelitis, Damianos S ^a   Hill, Kristine ^b   Klesen, Simon ^b   Marco, Cristina F ^a   von Born, Patrick ^a   Chitwood, Daniel H ^a,c   Timmermans, Marja C P ^a,b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHB8 PROTEIN; ATML1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MIR166A PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN; RBCS PROTEIN; SCR PROTEIN; SUC2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOX5 PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLANT RNA;

CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; PROTEIN; RNA; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; STRESS RESISTANCE;

ARTICLE; CELL CELL INTERFACE; CELL COMMUNICATION AND CELL CONTACT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHOOT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; ARABIDOPSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; REPORTER GENE; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MICRORNAS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHLOEM; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 85051119962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05571-0     Document Type: Article

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