The art of microRNA: Various strategies leading to gene silencing via an ancient pathway

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1779, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 655-662

  Tang, Guiliang ^a   Tang, Xiaoqing ^b   Mendu, Venugopal ^a   Tang, Xiaohu ^a   Jia, Xiaoyun ^a   Chen, Qi Jun ^a   He, Liheng ^a  

^a KTRDC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

miRNA; RISC; Target cleavage; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

BIOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 55049142524     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.06.006     Document Type: Review

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