Nuclear RNAi maintains heritable gene silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans

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

Volumn 108, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 19683-19688

  Burton, Nick O ^a   Burkhart, Kirk B ^a   Kennedy, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

HISTONE 3 LYSINE 9 METHYLATION; LYSINE; NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONES; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LYSINE; MALE; METHYLATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 83755183247     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113310108     Document Type: Article

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