Structural determinants of miRNAs for RISC loading and slicer-independent unwinding

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 953-960

  Kawamata, Tomoko ^a   Seitz, Hervé ^b,c   Tomari, Yukihide ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA HELICASES; RNA SPLICING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 69949127421     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1630     Document Type: Article

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