A micrococcal nuclease homologue in RNAi effector complexes

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6956, 2003, Pages 411-414

  Caudy, Amy A ^a   Ketting, René F ^b   Hammond, Scott M ^a,c   Denli, Ahmet M ^a   Bathoorn, Anja M P ^a,b   Tops, Bastiaan B J ^a,b   Silva, Jose M ^a   Myers, Mike M ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^b  

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

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; RNA;

PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

MICROORGANISMS;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA DERIVATIVE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TUDOR STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMAL; MICROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; MICROCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0141843655     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01956     Document Type: Article

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