Structural biology of RNA silencing and its functional implications

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2006, Pages 81-93

  Patel, D J ^a   Ma, J B ^a   Yuan, Y R ^a,c   Ye, K ^a,d   Pei, Y ^b   Kuryavyi, V ^a   Malinina, L ^a,e   Meister, G ^b,f   Tuschl, T ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^e CIC BIOGUNE   (Spain)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P19; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN PAZ; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 34250685051     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2006.71.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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