Loading and pre-loading processes generate a distinct siRNA population in Tetrahymena

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 436, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 497-502

  Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^a   Kurth, Henriette M ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b Viollier AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Dicer; SiRNA; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DICER; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; URACIL;

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARGONAUTE; DICER; SIRNA; TETRAHYMENA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS; URACIL;

EUKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 84879889270     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.05.133     Document Type: Article

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