Structural and functional modules in RNA interference

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 286-293

  Nowotny, Marcin ^a   Yang, Wei ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; DIGEORGE SYNDROME CRITICAL REGION GENE 8 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; DROSHA; GENE PRODUCT; MICRORNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RIBONUCLEASE III; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BIOGENESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 66649131084     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.04.006     Document Type: Review

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