The principles of guiding by RNA: Chimeric RNA-protein enzymes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 475-482

  Hüttenhofer, Alexander ^a   Schattner, Peter ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GUIDE RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

CATALYSIS; CELL FUNCTION; CHIMERA; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646883455     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1855     Document Type: Review

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