A novel monoclonal antibody against human Argonaute proteins reveals unexpected characteristics of miRNAs in human blood cells

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1787-1792

  Nelson, Peter T ^a   De Planell Saguer, Mariangels ^b   Lamprinaki, Stella ^b,c   Kiriakidou, Marianthi ^b   Zhang, Paul ^b   O'Doherty, Una ^b   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ago; Antibody; Argonaute; microRNA; miRNA; RNAi

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEOMICS; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34748880173     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.646007     Document Type: Article

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