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SUBMITTER: Fusaro AF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1679793 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fusaro Adriana F AF Matthew Louisa L Smith Neil A NA Curtin Shaun J SJ Dedic-Hagan Jasmina J Ellacott Geoff A GA Watson John M JM Wang Ming-Bo MB Brosnan Chris C Carroll Bernard J BJ Waterhouse Peter M PM
EMBO reports 20061013 11
RNA interference (RNAi) is widely used to silence genes in plants and animals. It operates through the degradation of target mRNA by endonuclease complexes guided by approximately 21 nucleotide (nt) short interfering RNAs (siRNAs). A similar process regulates the expression of some developmental genes through approximately 21 nt microRNAs. Plants have four types of Dicer-like (DCL) enzyme, each producing small RNAs with different functions. Here, we show that DCL2, DCL3 and DCL4 in Arabidopsis p ...[more]