Dicing and slicing: The core machinery of the RNA interference pathway

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 5822-5829

  Hammond, Scott M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Dicer; Drosha; microRNA; miRNA; RNA interference; RNA induced silencing complex; Slicer

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 26944441255     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.08.079     Document Type: Short Survey

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