The Argonaute family: Tentacles that reach into RNAi, developmental control, stem cell maintenance, and tumorigenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 2733-2742

  Carmell, Michelle A ^a,b   Xuan, Zhenyu ^a   Zhang, Michael Q ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARGONAUTE; RIBONUCLEASE III; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FATE; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0036828639     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1026102     Document Type: Review

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