A conserved motif in Argonaute-interacting proteins mediates functional interactions through the Argonaute PIWI domain

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 897-903

  Till, Susanne ^a,b   Lejeune, Erwan ^a,b   Thermann, Rolf ^a   Bortfeld, Miriam ^a   Hothorn, Michael ^a   Enderle, Daniel ^a,c   Heinrich, Constanze ^a,d   Hentze, Matthias W ^a   Ladurner, Andreas G ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b EMBL International PhD Programme

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 34948851405     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1302     Document Type: Article

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