Dicer-1, but not Loquacious, is critical for assembly of miRNA-induced silencing complexes

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2324-2329

  Liu, Xiang ^a   Park, Joseph K ^b   Jiang, Feng ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Mckearin, Dennis ^b   Liu, Qinghua ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

Dcr 1; Loqs; miRISC; miRNA; pre miRNA

Indexed keywords

DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; LOQS PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FLY; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HOMOZYGOTE; MICRORNAS; OVUM; RNA; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 36249019204     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.723707     Document Type: Article

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