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Molecular evolution of a viral non-coding sequence under the selective pressure of amiRNA-mediated silencing.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Feb 2009
Lin Shih-Shun, Wu Hui-Wen, Elena Santiago F, Chen Kuan-Chun, Niu Qi-Wen, Yeh Shyi-Dong, Chen Chin-Chih, Chua Nam-Hai
Abstract excerpt
Plant microRNAs (miRNA) guide cleavage of target mRNAs by DICER-like proteins, thereby reducing mRNA abundance. Native precursor miRNAs can be redesigned to target RNAs of interest, and one application of such artificial microRNA (amiRNA) technology is to generate plants resistant to pathogenic viruses. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing amiRNAs designed to target the genome of two unrelated viruses were...
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