An endogenous small interfering RNA pathway in Drosophila

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7196, 2008, Pages 798-802

  Czech, Benjamin ^a   Malone, Colin D ^a   Zhou, Rui ^a   Stark, Alexander ^b,c   Schlingeheyde, Catherine ^a   Dus, Monica ^a   Perrimon, Norbert ^a   Kellis, Manolis ^b   Wohlschlegel, James A ^d   Sachidanandam, Ravi ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a   Brennecke, Julius ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CATALYSIS; FLY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; GONAD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 44349104241     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07007     Document Type: Article

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