Retrotransposon Silencing During Embryogenesis: Dicer Cuts in LINE

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Faulkner, Geoffrey J ^a,b  

^a MATER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84888231895     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003944     Document Type: Article

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