Analysis of the C. elegans Argonaute Family Reveals that Distinct Argonautes Act Sequentially during RNAi

Cell

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 747-757

  Yigit, Erbay ^a   Batista, Pedro J ^a,b   Bei, Yanxia ^a   Pang, Ka Ming ^a   Chen, Chun Chieh G ^a   Tolia, Niraj H ^c   Joshua Tor, Leemor ^c   Mitani, Shohei ^d   Simard, Martin J ^a   Mello, Craig C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FERTILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33750824034     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.033     Document Type: Article

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