Human nuclear Dicer restricts the deleterious accumulation of endogenous double-stranded RNA

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 552-559

  White, Eleanor ^a   Schlackow, Margarita ^a   Kamieniarz Gdula, Kinga ^a   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a   Gullerova, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INTERFERON; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84902011435     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2827     Document Type: Article

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