The perfect storm of tiny RNAs

Nature Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1041-1045

  Ruvkun, Gary ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN LIN14; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIODIVERSITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DNA PROBE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STEM CELLS;

EID: 53549133101     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1008-1041     Document Type: Note

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