Human let-7 stem-loop precursors harbor features of RNase III cleavage products

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6593-6597

  Basyuk, Eugenia ^b   Suavet, Florence ^a   Doglio, Alain ^a   Bordonné, Rémy ^b   Bertrand, Edouard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSPORT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PRECURSORS;

EID: 0344668836     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg855     Document Type: Article

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