Identification of eight members of the Argonaute family in the human genome

Genomics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-330

  Sasaki, Takashi ^a   Shiohama, Aiko ^a   Minoshima, Shinsei ^a   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

AGO; eIF2C; HIWI; PAZ motif; PIWI; Piwi motif; PTGS; RNAi; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTIDINE; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0042124978     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00129-0     Document Type: Article

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