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Role of Arabidopsis AGO6 in siRNA accumulation, DNA methylation and transcriptional gene silencing.
The EMBO journal - 21 Mar 2007
Zheng Xianwu, Zhu Jianhua, Kapoor Avnish, Zhu Jian-Kang
Abstract excerpt
Argonautes (AGOs) are conserved proteins that contain an RNA-binding PAZ domain and an RNase H-like PIWI domain. In Arabidopsis, except for AGO1, AGO4 and AGO7, the roles of seven other AGOs in gene silencing are not known. We found that a mutation in AGO6 partially suppresses transcriptional gene silencing in the DNA demethylase mutant ros1-1. In ago6-1ros1-1 plants, RD29A promoter short interfering RNAs...
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