| Literature DB >> 21329663 |
Gaurav Sablok1, Alvaro L Pérez-Quintero, Mehedi Hassan, Tatiana V Tatarinova, Camilo López.
Abstract
In recent years, endogenous microRNAs have been described as important regulators of gene expression in eukaryotes. Artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs) represent a recently developed miRNA-based strategy to silence endogenous genes. amiRNAs can be created by exchanging the miRNA/miRNA(∗) sequence within a miRNA precursor with a sequence designed to match the target gene, this is possible as long as the secondary RNA structure of the precursor is kept intact. In this review, we summarize the basic methodologies to design amiRNAs and detail their applications in plants genetic functional studies as well as their potential for crops genetic improvement.Mesh：
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21329663 DOI： 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.02.045
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN： 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575