Behind the scenes of a small RNA gene-silencing pathway

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-26

  Ku, Gregory ^a,b   McManus, Michael T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 38649102786     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2007.1226     Document Type: Review

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