The Drosophila hairpin RNA pathway generates endogenous short interfering RNAs

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7196, 2008, Pages 803-806

  Okamura, Katsutomo ^a   Chung, Wei Jen ^a   Ruby, J Graham ^b   Guo, Huili ^b   Bartel, David P ^b   Lai, Eric C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER 2 PROTEIN; HEN1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 44349084754     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07015     Document Type: Article

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