Processing of primary microRNAs by the Microprocessor complex

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7014, 2004, Pages 231-235

  Denli, Ahmet M ^a   Tops, Bastiaan B J ^b   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^b   Ketting, René F ^b   Hannon, Gregory J ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; GENES; REDUCTION;

DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA BINDING PROTEINS; MATURATION; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS; WORMS;

RNA;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYST; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; INSECT CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REPORTER GENE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NEMATODA;

EID: 9144224451     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03049     Document Type: Article

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