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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 684 - 686 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nsmb0807-684

A fork in the road for microRNAs

Priya Bellare1 & Erik J Sontheimer1

  1. Priya Bellare and Erik J. Sontheimer are in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, 2205 Tech Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. e-mail: erik@northwestern.edu

Small RNAs can silence target genes by a variety of pathways and mechanisms. Specific microRNAs have now been shown to partition into distinct effector complexes, which may in turn affect their silencing output.

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