RNA interference can target pre-mRNA: Consequences for gene expression in a Caenorhabditis elegans operon

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1245-1256

  Bosher, Julia M ^a   Dufourcq, Pascale ^a,b   Sookhareea, Satis ^a   Labouesse, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INTRONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 0032755747     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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