Base-pair opening dynamics of primary miR156a using NMR elucidates structural determinants important for its processing level and leaf number phenotype in …

W Kim, HE Kim, AR Lee, AR Jun, MG Jung… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs originate from primary transcripts containing hairpin structures. The levels of
mature miR156 influence the leaf number prior to flowering in the life cycle of plants. To …

Identification of microRNA processing determinants by random mutagenesis of Arabidopsis MIR172a precursor

JL Mateos, NG Bologna, U Chorostecki, JF Palatnik - Current Biology, 2010 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are widespread posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression.
They are processed from longer primary transcripts that contain foldback structures …

Secrets of the MIR172 family in plant development and flowering unveiled

B Zhang, X Chen - PLoS biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In plants, conserved microRNAs (miRNAs) tend to be encoded by gene families with
multiple members. Two recent studies interrogated the functions of the 5-member MIR172 …

Structural determinants of miR156a precursor processing in temperature-responsive flowering in Arabidopsis

W Kim, HE Kim, AR Jun, MG Jung, S Jin… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs originate from primary transcripts (pri-miRNAs) containing hairpin structures.
Plant pri-miRNAs have highly variable structures and little is known about the information …

A loop‐to‐base processing mechanism underlies the biogenesis of plant microRNAs miR319 and miR159

NG Bologna, JL Mateos, EG Bresso… - The EMBO journal, 2009 - embopress.org
The first step in microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis usually involves cleavage at the base of its
fold‐back precursor. Here, we describe a non‐canonical processing mechanism for miRNAs …

Identification of miRNA858 long-loop precursors in seed plants

W Wang, X Liu, Y Zhu, J Zhu, C Liu, Z Wang… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of nonprotein-coding short transcripts that provide a layer
of post-transcriptional regulation essential to many plant biological processes. MiR858 …

Structure determinants for accurate processing of miR172a in Arabidopsis thaliana

S Werner, H Wollmann, K Schneeberger, D Weigel - Current Biology, 2010 - cell.com
Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) are processed by the RNase III-like enzyme DICER-LIKE1
acting in concert with the double-stranded RNA-binding protein HYPONASTIC LEAVES1 …

Overexpression of miR396 miRNAs caused Flower stigma curved in Arabidopsis thaliana

LIU Dong-Me - Plant Diversity, 2009 - journal.kib.ac.cn
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are-21 nucleotide (nt), endogenous and encoding RNAs that play
important regulatory roles in growth and development by targetingmRNAs for direct …

Multiple RNA recognition patterns during microRNA biogenesis in plants

NG Bologna, AL Schapire, J Zhai… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) derive from longer precursors with fold-back structures. While animal
miRNA precursors have homogenous structures, plant precursors comprise a collection of …

Evolution of MIR159/319 microRNA genes and their post-transcriptional regulatory link to siRNA pathways

Y Li, C Li, G Ding, Y Jin - BMC evolutionary biology, 2011 - Springer
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are prevalent and important endogenous gene
regulators in eukaryotes. MiR159 and miR319 are highly conserved miRNAs essential for …