The structure of an RNAi polymerase links RNA silencing and transcription

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2274-2281

  Salgado, Paula S ^a,d   Koivunen, Minni R L ^b,c   Makeyev, Eugene V ^b,c,e   Bamford, Dennis H ^b,c   Stuart, David I ^a   Grimes, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; QDE1 PROTEIN, NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE SILENCING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33845485312     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040434     Document Type: Article

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