The double-stranded-RNA-binding motif: Interference and much more

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1013-1023

  Tian, Bin ^a   Bevilacqua, Philip C ^b   Diegelman Parente, Amy ^c   Mathews, Michael B ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; CELL METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING MOTIF; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA LOCALIZATION; RNA MATURATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 10044246238     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1528     Document Type: Review

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