Dicer's helicase domain is required for accumulation of some, but not all, C. elegans endogenous siRNAs

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 893-903

  Welker, Noah C ^a   Pavelec, Derek M ^b   Nix, David A ^a   Duchaine, Thomas F ^c   Kennedy, Scott ^b   Bass, Brenda L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dicer; Helicase; miRNA; RNAi; siRNA

Indexed keywords

DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DELETION; GENES, HELMINTH; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77951169802     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2122010     Document Type: Article

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