RNA Interference: A New Mechanism by which FMRP Acts in the Normal Brain? What Can Drosophila Teach Us?

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 68-74

  Siomi, Haruhiko ^a   Ishizuka, Akira ^a   Siomi, Mikiko C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; FMR1; miRNA; RNAi; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DENDRITIC SPINE; DFMR1 GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FMR1 GENE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 1642326115     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.20011     Document Type: Review

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