RNAi: Mammalian oocytes do it without RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-192

  Stein, Paula ^a   Svoboda, Petr ^a   Anger, Martin ^a   Schultz, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse oocyte; RNA interference; RNA dependent RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE SILENCING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, MOS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OOCYTES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE;

ANIMALIA; AQUARIUS; MAMMALIA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0037322606     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2860603     Document Type: Article

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