Dicer-2 and R2D2 coordinately bind siRNA to promote assembly of the siRISC complexes

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1514-1520

  Liu, Xiang ^a   Jiang, Feng ^a   Kalidas, Savitha ^a   Smith, Dean ^a   Liu, Qinghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dicer 2; R2D2; RNA interference (RNAi); siRISC; siRNA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DEPENDENT PROTEINASE; DICER 2 ENZYME; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN R2D2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA BINDING;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HISTIDINE; HOMOZYGOTE; INSECT PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SEQUENCE DELETION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33746581711     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.101606     Document Type: Article

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