Sorting of drosophila small silencing RNAs partitions microRNA* strands into the RNA interference pathway

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-56

  Ghildiyal, Megha ^a   Xu, Jia ^b   Seitz, Hervé ^a,c   Weng, Zhiping ^a   Zamore, Phillip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Argonaute; microRNA; miRNA; RNA interference; RNAi; siRNA; Small RNA sorting

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; URIDINE; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ARGONAUTE1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 75649129754     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1972910     Document Type: Article

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