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Dicer measures up

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 13, pages 190–192 (2006)Cite this article

Recent structures of Dicer and the related bacterial enzyme, RNase III, demonstrate how Dicer acts as a molecular ruler, measuring out a precise length of double stranded RNA before cleavage.

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Figure 1: The domain structure of RNAse III enzymes.

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    Elena Conti

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