microPrimer: The biogenesis and function of microRNA

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 4645-4652

  Du, Tingting ^a   Zamore, Phillip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EXPORTIN 5; MICRORNA; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BIOGENESIS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 28044455435     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02070     Document Type: Review

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