Nucleotide mismatches prevent intrinsic self-silencing of hpRNA transgenes to enhance RNAi stability in plants

oleh: Daai Zhang, Chengcheng Zhong, Neil A. Smith, Robert de Feyter, Ian K. Greaves, Steve M. Swain, Ren Zhang, Ming-Bo Wang

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01

Deskripsi

Long hairpin RNA (hpRNA) transgenes are the most widely used RNAi technology in plants, but are potentially subject to self-induced transcriptional silencing. Here, the authors show nucleotide mismatches prevent intrinsic self-silencing of hpRNA transgenes in Arabidopsis and tobacco.