Diced triplets expose neurons to RISC

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Rudnicki, Dobrila D ^a   Margolis, Russell L ^a   Pearson, Christopher E ^b,c   Krzyzosiak, Wlodzimierz J ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; HUNTINGTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY PROTEIN KINASE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TOXICITY; CAG REPEAT; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; NEURONS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 84859201181     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002545     Document Type: Article

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