MicroRNA biogenesis and function: An overview

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 700, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-14

  Ketting, René F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS;

EID: 79958246549     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7823-3_1     Document Type: Article

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