A single RNA-dependent RNA polymerase assembles with mutually exclusive nucleotidyl transferase subunits to direct different pathways of small RNA biogenesis

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1363-1374

  Lee, Suzanne Rebecca ^a,b   Talsky, Kristin Benjamin ^a   Collins, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dicer; Poly(U) polymerase; Rdr; Tetrahymena thermophila

Indexed keywords

DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN DCR2; PROTEIN RDF1; PROTEIN RDF2; PROTEIN RDN1; PROTEIN RDN2; PROTEIN RDR1; RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EUKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 67649364174     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1630309     Document Type: Article

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