Argonautes confront new small RNAs

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 569-577

  Faehnle, Christopher R ^a   Joshua Tor, Leemor ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SECONDARY ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; SLICER ENZYME; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WORM SPECIFIC ARGONAUTE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLADISTICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERM LINE GENE THERAPY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 35348893149     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.08.032     Document Type: Review

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