RNA Interference: Biology, Mechanism, and Applications

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 657-685

  Agrawal, Neema ^a   Dasaradhi, P V N ^a   Mohmmed, Asif ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^a   Bhatnagar, Raj K ^a   Mukherjee, Sunil K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

ALLELE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGENESIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PROTOZOA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0346848758     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.67.4.657-685.2003     Document Type: Review

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