Perspective: Machines for RNAi

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 517-529

  Tomari, Yukihide ^a   Zamore, Phillip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Dicer; PTGS; RISC; RNA silencing; RNAi

Indexed keywords

DICER; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HISTONE H3; MICRORNA; PROTEIN P19; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14644393684     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1284105     Document Type: Review

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