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SUBMITTER: Montavon T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388410 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Montavon Thomas T Kwon Yerim Y Zimmermann Aude A Hammann Philippe P Vincent Timothée T Cognat Valérie V Michel Fabrice F Dunoyer Patrice P
Nucleic acids research 20170201 3
In plants, several dsRNA-binding proteins (DRBs) have been shown to play important roles in various RNA silencing pathways, mostly by promoting the efficiency and/or accuracy of Dicer-like proteins (DCL)-mediated small RNA production. Among the DRBs encoded by the Arabidopsis genome, we recently identified DRB7.2 whose function in RNA silencing was unknown. Here, we show that DRB7.2 is specifically involved in siRNA production from endogenous inverted-repeat (endoIR) loci. This function requires ...[more]