The argonautes

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-72

  Joshua Tor, L ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 34250658119     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2006.71.048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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