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Roles of DCL4 and DCL3b in rice phased small RNA biogenesis.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Feb 2012
Song Xianwei, Li Pingchuan, Zhai Jixian, Zhou Ming, Ma Lijia, Liu Bin, Jeong Dong-Hoon, Nakano Mayumi, Cao Shouyun, Liu Chunyan, Chu Chengcai, Wang Xiu-Jie, Green Pamela J, Meyers Blake C, Cao Xiaofeng
Abstract excerpt
Higher plants have evolved multiple proteins in the RNase III family to produce and regulate different classes of small RNAs with specialized molecular functions. In rice (Oryza sativa), numerous genomic clusters are targeted by one of two microRNAs (miRNAs), miR2118 and miR2275, to produce secondary small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) of either 21 or 24 nucleotides in a phased manner. The biogenesis requirements or...
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