Recognizing the enemy within: Licensing RNA-guided genome defense

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-34

  Dumesic, Phillip A ^a   Madhani, Hiten D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome defense; PIWI interacting RNA; RNAi; Small interfering RNA; Small RNA; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN GENOME; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSPOSON; YEAST;

GENOME DEFENSE; PIWI-INTERACTING RNA; RNAI; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84890855567     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2013.10.003     Document Type: Review

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