Expression, purification, and analysis of recombinant drosophila dicer-1 and dicer-2 enzymes

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 442, Issue , 2008, Pages 11-27

  Ye, Xuecheng ^a   Liu, Qinghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Dicer 1; Dicer 2; DsRNA; MiRNA; Pre miRNA; RNA interference; SiRNA

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84934434289     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-191-8_2     Document Type: Article

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