Heme is involved in microRNA processing

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-29

  Faller, Michael ^a   Matsunaga, Michio ^a   Yin, Sheng ^b   Loo, Joseph A ^a,b   Guo, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME; MICRORNA; MONOMER;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 33846065567     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1182     Document Type: Article

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