Ancestral roles of small RNAs: An ago-centric perspective

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Joshua Tor, Leemor ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 84864761149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a003772     Document Type: Article

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