Drosophila endogenous small RNAs bind to Argonaute 2 in somatic cells

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7196, 2008, Pages 793-797

  Kawamura, Yoshinori ^a   Saito, Kuniaki ^a,b   Kin, Taishin ^c   Ono, Yukiteru ^d   Asai, Kiyoshi ^c,e   Sunohara, Takafumi ^a   Okada, Tomoko N ^a,b   Siomi, Mikiko C ^a,b,f   Siomi, Haruhiko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Japan Biological Information Research Center   (Japan)

^d Information and Mathematics Science Laboratory Inc   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

FLY; GENOME; IMMUNITY; MUTATION; PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RETROPOSON; RNA DEGRADATION; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 44349103084     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06938     Document Type: Article

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