Hairpin RNA: A secondary structure of primary importance

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 901-918

  Svoboda, P ^a   Di Cara, A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dsRNA; Hairpin; Localization; miRNA; RNAi; Stem loop; Translation

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RIBOZYME; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CAENORHABDITIS; CHROMOSOME 3; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; METAZOA;

EID: 33646580027     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-005-5558-5     Document Type: Review

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