Programmed DNA elimination in tetrahymena: A small RNA-mediated genome surveillance mechanism

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 722, Issue , 2011, Pages 156-173

  Kataoka, Kensuke ^a   Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DC11P PROTEIN; DNA; EZ11P PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; TWI1P PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REPRODUCTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA RNA INTERACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TETRAHYMENA;

EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 80053599471     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0332-6_10     Document Type: Article

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