The varied roles of nuclear argonaute-small RNA complexes and avenues for therapy

Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages e203-

  Ross, Jason P ^a   Kassir, Zena ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ago; Argonaute; microRNA; miRNA; Nuclear; RNAa; siRNA; TGS; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

EID: 84923572337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mtna.2014.54     Document Type: Review

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