On the road to reading the RNA-interference code

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7228, 2009, Pages 396-404

  Siomi, Haruhiko ^a   Siomi, Mikiko C ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 58749096360     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07754     Document Type: Review

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