Hairpin RNA induces secondary small interfering RNA synthesis and silencing in trans in fission yeast

EMBO Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-118

  Simmer, Femke ^a,c   Buscaino, Alessia ^a   Kos Braun, Isabelle C ^a,d   Kagansky, Alexander ^a   Boukaba, Abdelhalim ^a,e   Urano, Takeshi ^b   Kerr, Alastair R W ^a   Allshire, Robin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Centromere; Heterochromatin; RNAi; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN CLR3; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISSION YEAST; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANS SILENCING; YEAST;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HETEROCHROMATIN; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 75949084195     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.273     Document Type: Article

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