Potential coexistence of both bacterial and eukaryotic small RNA biogenesis and functional related protein homologs in Archaea

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 493-503

  Li, Yan ^a,c   Liu, Xiuying ^a,c   Huang, Li ^b   Guo, Huishan ^a   Wang, Xiu Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Archaea; Piwi; RNA silencing; RNase III; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOGENESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77956261159     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60069-2     Document Type: Article

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