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A MicroRNA as a Translational Repressor of APETALA2 in Arabidopsis Flower Development
Xuemei Chen
Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) show a high degree of sequence complementarityto, and are believed to guide the cleavage of, their targetmessenger RNAs. Here, Ishow that miRNA172, which can base-pairwith the messenger RNA of a floral homeotic gene, APETALA2,regulates APETALA2 expression primarily through translationalinhibition. Elevated miRNA172 accumulation results in floralorgan identity defects similar to those in loss-of-functionapetala2 mutants. Elevated levels of mutant APETALA2 RNA withdisrupted miRNA172 base pairing, but not wild-type APETALA2RNA, result in elevated levels of APETALA2 protein and severefloral patterning defects. Therefore, miRNA172 likely acts incell-fate specification as a translational repressor of APETALA2in Arabidopsis flower development.
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