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  • Title: Class III HD-Zip gene regulation, the golden fleece of ARGONAUTE activity?
    Author: Bowman JL.
    Journal: Bioessays; 2004 Sep; 26(9):938-42. PubMed ID: 15351964.
    Abstract:
    MicroRNAs, small noncoding RNAs, are implicated in gene regulation in both metazoans and plants. In plants, many of the targets of miRNA-mediated gene regulation encode transcription factors with functions in development, such as the Class III HD-Zip gene family whose members direct polarity establishment in leaves and vasculature. Three recent papers provide insight into how miRNAs, likely acting through a complex containing an Argonaute protein, regulate Class III HD-Zip gene expression in Arabidopsis and maize.1-3 While the precise biological activity of Argonaute proteins remains an enigma, ARGONAUTE1 in Arabidopsis is required for the proper regulation of miRNA165/166, which targets cleavage of Class III HD-Zip mRNAs. Consistent with their proposed role in negative regulation, expression of miRNA165/166 is complementary to that of Class III HD-Zip gene expression, but this is perturbed in agronaute1 mutants. Determining how these complementary patterns of expression are formed should lead us closer to an understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which asymmetry is established in developing leaves.
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