Trans-splicing in C. elegans generates the negative RNAi regulator ERI-6/7

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7212, 2008, Pages 491-496

  Fischer, Sylvia E J ^a,b   Butler, Maurice D ^a,b   Pan, Qi ^a,b,c   Ruvkun, Gary ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ZYMOGENETICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ERI 6; PROTEIN ERI 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; NEMATODE; RNA; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE STRUCTURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANS-SPLICING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 52949091512     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07274     Document Type: Article

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