The nuclear Argonaute NRDE-3 contributes to transitive RNAi in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-131

  Zhuang, Jimmy J ^a   Banse, Stephen A ^a,b   Hunter, Craig P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RNA INTERFERENCE DEFECTIVE PROTEIN 3; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; EXORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84877087371     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.149765     Document Type: Article

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