Loqs-PD and R2D2 define independent pathways for RISC generation in Drosophila

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3836-3851

  Hartig, Julia V ^a   Förstemann, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 79954630204     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1324     Document Type: Article

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