Endogenous short RNAs generated by Dicer 2 and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 regulate mRNAs in the basal fungus Mucor circinelloides

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 5535-5541

  Nicolas, Francisco Esteban ^a   Moxon, Simon ^a   de Haro, Juan P ^b   Calo, Silvia ^b   Grigoriev, Igor V ^c   Torres MartÍnez, Santiago ^b   Moulton, Vincent ^a   Ruiz Vázquez, Rosa M ^b   Dalmay, Tamas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SHORT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES;

EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MICRORNAS; MUCOR; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 77956539978     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq301     Document Type: Article

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