A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: Computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Biology Direct

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Makarova, Kira S ^a   Grishin, Nick V ^b   Shabalina, Svetlana A ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

ARTICLE;

EID: 34248374277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-1-7     Document Type: Review

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