RNAi triggered by specialized machinery silences developmental genes and retrotransposons

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7433, 2013, Pages 557-560

  Yamanaka, Soichiro ^a   Mehta, Sameet ^a   Reyes Turcu, Francisca E ^a   Zhuang, Fanglei ^b   Fuchs, Ryan T ^b   Rong, Yikang ^a   Robb, Gregory B ^b   Grewal, Shiv I S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

DNA; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EXOSOME; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; RETROELEMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84872958560     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11716     Document Type: Article

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