Engineering of a conditional allele reveals multiple roles of XRN2 in Caenorhabditis elegans development and substrate specificity in microRNA turnover

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4056-4067

  Miki, Takashi S ^a   Rüegger, Stefan ^a,b   Gaidatzis, Dimos ^a,c   Stadler, Michael B ^a,c   Großhans, Helge ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EXORIBONUCLEASES; MICRORNAS; MOLTING; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; RNA STABILITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84892876750     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1418     Document Type: Article

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