DNA nanostructures coordinate gene silencing in mature plants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 116, Issue 15, 2019, Pages 7543-7548

  Zhang, Huan ^a   Demirer, Gozde S ^a   Zhang, Honglu ^a   Ye, Tianzheng ^a   Goh, Natalie S ^a   Aditham, Abhishek J ^a   Cunningham, Francis J ^a   Fan, Chunhai ^b,c   Landry, Markita P ^a,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CHAN ZUCKERBERG BIOHUB   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA nanotechnology; DNA origami; Plant biotechnology; RNA delivery; SiRNA gene silencing

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; NANOPARTICLE; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; INTERNALIZATION; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSICACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BRASSICACEAE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; NANOPARTICLES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOBACCO;

EID: 85064135190     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818290116     Document Type: Article

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