Small dna pieces in C. elegans are intermediates of DNA fragmentation during apoptosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Aruscavage, P Joseph ^a   Hellwig, Sabine ^b   Bass, Brenda L ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' PHOSPHATE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE II; DNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEASE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN NUC 1; SMALL DNA PIECES; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; HELMINTH DNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA, HELMINTH;

EID: 77955283613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011217     Document Type: Article

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