RNA-based recognition and targeting: Sowing the seeds of specificity

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 215-228

  Gorski, Stanislaw A ^a   Vogel, Jörg ^a   Doudna, Jennifer A ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; EUKARYOTE; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SOWING; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 85012891302     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.174     Document Type: Review

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