From guide to target: Molecular insights into eukaryotic RNA-interference machinery

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 20-28

  Ipsaro, Jonathan J ^a,b   Joshua Tor, Leemor ^a,b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA;

EUKARYOTA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84925282872     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2931     Document Type: Review

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