A three-dimensional view of the molecular machinery of RNA interference

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7228, 2009, Pages 405-412

  Jinek, Martin ^a   Doudna, Jennifer A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL METABOLISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 58749113430     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07755     Document Type: Review

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