Argonaute Proteins: Mediators of RNA Silencing

Molecular Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 611-623

  Peters, Lasse ^a   Meister, Gunter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

RNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN ARGONAUTE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL GRANULE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRESS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34249810892     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.05.001     Document Type: Review

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