Dicer-independent processing of short hairpin RNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3723-3733

  Liu, Ying Poi ^a   Schopman, Nick C T ^a   Berkhout, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84876030403     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt036     Document Type: Article

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