Investigating How The Abundance Of An Argonaute Family Protein Is Controlled In The Mustard Plant Arabidopsis Thaliana

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Investigating How The Abundance Of An Argonaute Family Protein Is Controlled In The Mustard Plant Arabidopsis Thaliana

Description

A family of proteins with very similar amino acid sequences known as Argonautes is found in all plants and animals. Proteins from this family play critical roles during an organism's development and helping the plant or animal fight off harmful viruses. Argonautes carry out these tasks by silencing a specific set of the organism's own developmental genes as well as genes encoded by viruses, relieving the cell of unnecessary or even harmful genetic codes. This phenomenon of destroying certain genes has immense scientific and pharmaceutical implications. In this set of experiments, we examine one of the ways in which an Argonaute protein's activity is controlled. We aim to create a system to study the role of the Argonaute4 protein in the mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana and how its abundance fluctuates in order to meet the changing needs of the plant during its life cycle.

Ross Cocklin

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Jessica Dude

Date

2015-04-11

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12088/7593

Language

en_US

Subject

Biology

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Presentation

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AEC 2015 Sciences

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