On the origin and functions of RNA-mediated silencing: From protists to man

Current Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-99

  Cerutti, Heriberto ^a   Casas Mollano, J Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; RNA interference; RNA iphylogenetics; Transposon silencing

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE LIKE POLYPEPTIDE; DICER LIKE PROTEIN; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENE PRODUCT; HISTONE; MICRORNA; PIWI LIKE PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA METHYLATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 33745951984     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0078-x     Document Type: Review

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