The Argonaute protein TbAGO1 contributes to large and mini-chromosome segregation and is required for control of RIME retroposons and RHS pseudogene-associated transcripts

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-153

  Durand Dubief, Mickaël ^a   Absalon, Sabrina ^a,b   Menzer, Linda ^b   Ngwabyt, Sandra ^a,b   Ersfeld, Klaus ^c   Bastin, Philippe ^a,b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Mitosis; Pseudogenes; Retroposons; RNA interference; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; PSEUDOGENES; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 35348959885     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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