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Gene silencing: Mode of miRNA biogenesis matters

Nature Plants volume 1, Article number: 15019 (2015) Cite this article

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Animal microRNAs appear to either cleave or repress the translation of target messenger RNAs depending on complementarity between the two. Contrastingly, the biogenesis of plant microRNAs seems to dictate their mode of action.

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Figure 1: Proposed model for the activity of animal and plant miRNA.

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  1. Hervé Vaucheret is at the Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, UMR1318, INRA, 78000 Versailles, France.,

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Vaucheret, H. Gene silencing: Mode of miRNA biogenesis matters. Nature Plants 1, 15019 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.19

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