Functional small RNAs are generated from select miRNA hairpin loops in flies and mammals

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 778-792

  Okamura, Katsutomo ^a,b   Ladewig, Erik ^a   Zhou, Li ^b   Lai, Eric C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Argonaute protein; Mirna hairpin loop; Small RNA loading

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MAMMALS; MICE; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876351771     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.211698.112     Document Type: Article

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