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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 406, Issue 3, Pages 315-319Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.02.045
Keywords
amiRNAs; Gene knockouts; Model organism; Virus
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- University of Glamorgan
- Direccion de lnvestigaciones sede Bogota (Universidad Nacional)
- Colciencias
- Ministerio de Agricultura de Colombia
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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. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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