C. elegans RNA-dependent RNA polymerases rrf-1 and ego-1 silence Drosophila transgenes by differing mechanisms

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1469-1481

  Duan, Guowen ^a,b   Saint, Robert B ^c   Helliwell, Chris A ^a   Behm, Carolyn A ^b   Wang, Ming Bo ^a   Waterhouse, Peter M ^d   Gordon, Karl H J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drosophila; microRNAs (miRNAs); RNA interference (RNAi); RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp)

Indexed keywords

DNA; EGO 1 PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RRF 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EGFP GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; MITOSIS; NACHABAC GENE; NONHUMAN; PEBBLE GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MICRORNAS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSGENES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84876670103     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1218-8     Document Type: Article

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