The Many Faces of RNAi

Developmental Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-161

  Ketting, René F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; MEIOSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79751485564     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.01.012     Document Type: Review

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