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GREEN ALGA MICRORNAS

Silencing messages in a unique way

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A global analysis of translation efficiency and RNA accumulation revealed that microRNAs in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas regulate target gene expression via RNA destabilization and translational repression like land plants and metazoans, yet in a different way.

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Fig. 1: The functions of microRNAs in land plants, metazoans and the green alga Chlamydomonas.

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  1. Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan

    Hiro-oki Iwakawa & Yukihide Tomari

  2. Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan

    Hiro-oki Iwakawa & Yukihide Tomari

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