Essential and overlapping functions for mammalian argonautes in microRNA silencing

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 304-317

  Su, Hong ^a   Trombly, Melanie I ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Wang, Xiaozhong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Argonaute; MicroRNA; SiRNA; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN 3; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN 4; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN KINASE B; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STEM CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; GENE TARGETING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 59949096548     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1749809     Document Type: Article

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