Argonaute and RNA - Getting into the groove

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-11

  Song, Ji Joon ^a   Joshua Tor, Leemor ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 32344448109     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.01.010     Document Type: Review

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