The post-transcriptional gene silencing machinery functions independently of DNA methylation to repress a LINE1-like retrotransposon in Neurospora crassa

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1564-1573

  Nolan, Tony ^a   Braccini, Laura ^a   Azzalin, Gianluca ^a   De Toni, Arianna ^a   Macino, Giuseppe ^a   Cogoni, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; RECQ HELICASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REPRESSION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 15044340327     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki300     Document Type: Article

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