mut-16 and other mutator class genes modulate 22G and 26G siRNA pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1201-1208

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Montgomery, Taiowa A ^a   Gabel, Harrison W ^a,c   Fischer, Sylvia E J ^a   Phillips, Carolyn M ^a   Fahlgren, Noah ^b   Sullivan, Christopher M ^b   Carrington, James C ^b   Ruvkun, Gary ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EXORIBONUCLEASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MALE; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79952151278     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018695108     Document Type: Article

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